The world of bugs – insects and arachnids – can be as spectacular as that of the big mammal predators but even more bizarre, in appearance and behaviour.
To explore this world, 3D close-up takes us to a strange, dramatic and alien universe that defies the imagination.
The mantis, for example, is an impressive insect, with its grasping forelegs and strange, large complex eyes, and in close-up we will see its lightning-fast strike as it captures its prey and eats it.
Also, the iconic spider is the subject of many a horror movie, and the trapdoor spider is the most spectacular of them all: she hides in the ground beneath a camouflaged cover und jumps up to grab her passing prey in the fraction of a second.
The familiar honey bee forms spectacular swarms and we can enter inside the swarm in 3D, seeing the behaviour of the bees as they communicate to their hive mates the position of possible new nests as well as experiencing their flight in slow motion.
There are plenty of bugs in our gardens and homes. We visit the violent world of a flower bed, to see lacewings and ladybirds wreaking havoc on herds of aphids. And we see what our kitchens look like to roaches and flies.
Yet to many creatures, bugs are just bite-sized packets of protein – a fact made clear as we watch spectacular 3D slow motion footage of birds catching bugs in flight, arowana fish leaping 2 metres from the Amazon to engulf insects on overhanging branches and archer fish shooting down insects with precisely aimed drops of water.
Yet often the most gruesome killers of bugs are other bugs. We dip beneath the surface of an ordinary pond to discover a hunting dragonfly larva. That ever-adaptable exo-skeleton has allowed the dragonfly to evolve a lower jaw that works like an extendable gin-trap. It can shoot out nearly half the larva’s body length to spring closed on a passing bug.
This might seem like an alien world, yet without the world of bugs, we wouldn’t last more than a few months. They pollinate our crops and clear away waste. Without them we would quickly starve or drown in our own waste. But after Big Bugs in 3D, you’ll never look at bugs in the same way again.
Big.Bugs.2012.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-DON [PublicHD]
Length...........: 52mn 30s
Video............: X264 @ 13900 kbps (1920x1080)
FPS..............: 23.976
Audio............: English DTS 5.1 Ch 1510 kbps
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