Micro Monsters with David Attenborough - Season 1 - Eps 3: Courtship
A further selection of creepy-crawly close-ups, focusing on courtship in the bug world. Highlights include scorpions shaking their booty, the perfume-wearing nasonia wasp and the tropical cricket, for whom romance goes out of the window as it uses bribery to seal the deal with would-be partners. One potential partner to steer well clear of, however, is the praying mantis, the female of which is notorious for eating the male just after - or even during - mating. Narrated by David Attenborough.
About Micro Monsters with David Attenborough
Title: Micro Monsters with David Attenborough
First Air Date: 2013-06-15
Last Air Date: 2013-07-20
Status: Ended
Rating: 7/10 (from 10 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 6
Network: Sky 3D
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Colossus Productions, Sky 3D, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Synopsis
It s a small world after all. In this revolutionary new series, David Attenborough reveals the marvellous adaptability of the most successful group of animals on the planet. Using pioneering macroscopic filmmaking techniques, he explores in unparalleled detail the intricate, sophisticated behaviours of these fascinating creatures and the complexity of the environments they build and inhabit, in a world normally hidden from the human eye. From armies of killer ants to spiders weaving silken trap doors, ferocious scorpions with paralysing stings, beetles shooting boiling chemicals at their enemies, bees communicating with a waggle dance and assassin bugs that clothe themselves in their victims corpses; David Attenborough will as never before take viewers deep into the macroscopic world of bugs.
Cast
David Attenborough
Presenter
