Alien Empire - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Hardware
A journey to the heart of the insect empire, using the latest computer animation and technology to offer a unique perspective on one of the most prolific and diverse life forms on the planet. This edition focuses on beetles and butterflies, from the tropical rainforests to our own households.
Replicators
Insects exist to make more insects. This second programme in the series explores the lengths to which an insect will go to attract a mate and reproduce.
Battle Zone
A journey to the empire of the insect, one of the most successful life forms on the planet. The programme goes fishing in the rainforests of Panama and Costa Rica, searching for fishing bugs and abseiling wasps, whose unusual behaviour has never before been documented on film.
Voyagers
The vivid documentary series about the insect world reveals crickets that live on the slopes of an active volcano and ocean striders at home on the water of the ocean.
Metropolis
The complex and ingenious structures devised, built and maintained by social insects.
War of the Worlds
In this final programme of the series the battle lines are drawn, insects - friends or foe?
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