Planet Insect

Name: Planet Insect
Genre: Nature
Released: 2022-08-03

Network:CuriosityStream

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S01E03 - "Part Three: Hive Minds"

Aired on Aug 3, 2022, 4:00 PM

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Description

No need to travel to outer space to explore strange new worlds. There is alien life right under our noses Ă˘â‚¬â€ť insects. They run our planet but are as different from us as possible, and as close to an alien life form that we'll ever see here on Earth. This is their worldĂ˘â‚¬Â¦ and their story.

Details

Status: Running
Language: English
Runtime: 55 min
Premiered: August 3, 2022

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Episodes (1 Season · 3 Episodes)

Part One: Small Creatures - Big Lives

Between 5 and 10 million different kinds maybe ten quintillion individuals Ă˘â‚¬â€ś there's absolutely no doubt that we're living on Planet Insect. Insects live the most extraordinary lives many of them revealed for the first time in this one-hour program.

Aug 3, 2022

55 min

Part Two: The Next Generation

Insects are very good at making more insects Ă˘â‚¬â€ś but it's not easy. Insects are tiny creatures living in a big world. Partners must find each other to mate and the next generation must survive in a huge dangerous world.

Aug 3, 2022

54 min

Part Three: Hive Minds

Social insects - ants bees wasps and termites - are incredibly successful. By some estimates the weight of ants equals that of humanity and that of termites equals terrestrial vertebrates.

Aug 3, 2022

56 min