Micro Monsters with David Attenborough - Season 1 - Eps 3: Courtship

2013-06-2923 min⭐ 7/10

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.

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About Micro Monsters with David Attenborough

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

David Attenborough

Presenter

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