Micro Monsters with David Attenborough - Season 1 - Eps 5: Family
While most of the series has focused on conflict, this episode is all about co-operation. The suitably named social spiders spin one enormous, 30m web for the whole colony, a queen bee rules her hive with a strict hierarchy and some green ants show great team spirit to help build a nest together. There are no broken societies here. David Attenborough shifts the focus to bugs that prefer cooperation rather than conflict. They include burrowing cockroaches, the suitably named social spiders - which share a 30-metre web.
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
