Bees Kill A Giant Hornet With Heat | Buddha, Bees and The Giant Hornet Queen | BBC Earth
back in the hive those bees too young to forage our housekeeping like the Hornet queen the queen bee has the immeasurable task of laying enough eggs to ensure the health and future of the colony the custom of keeping wild japanese bees is as old as society itself and Yamaguchi has kept bees since […]
Ants Attack Termite Mounds | Natural World: Ant Attack | BBC Earth
the entire army is mobilizing the raiding parties head out to the last place they had found food where they had pinned down the few winged termites [Music] the bearing they’ve taken is leading them straight towards the termite mound itself ants and termites have been adversaries for over a hundred million years now their […]
Ants Battle to Protect Their Fortress | Life Story | BBC Earth
Back in the Australian rainforest, this weaver ant fortress sits at the heart of a rich territory. Hunting parties go out to gather food to fuel their growing numbers. Some canopy caterpillars are not killed, but farmed by the ants. They exude a sugary secretion that the ants collect. In return, the ants mount a […]
Spider With Three Super Powers | The Hunt | BBC Earth
To help her in her quest, she’s equipped with three superpowers. First, an amazing approach to getting about. Portia is a jumping spider… able to leap up to 50 times her own body length. Nowhere seems beyond her reach. Next, her second superpower, superb eyesight… essential if she is to distinguish her prey in all […]
Frog Defends Eggs From Wasps | 4K UHD | Planet Earth II | BBC Earth
[Music] danger ped and that’s just as well because he is a father and he’s guarding some very precious eggs for the last few few weeks females one after the other have visited him and entrusted him with their [Music] offspring some are now almost ready to hatch there are several clutches on the leaf […]
Eel Suffers Toxic Shock | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
In the Gulf of Mexico, these eruptions also release a super-salty liquid – brine. It’s heavier than seawater and it accumulates in great pools on the seafloor. It’s difficult to make sense of the sight. A lake of concentrated saltwater 15 metres deep at the bottom of the sea. Around its margin, perhaps even more […]
Cuttlefish Hypnotises Prey | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
n a far corner of south-east Asia lies the Coral Triangle, a cluster of the richest coral reefs in the world. Undersea cities crammed full of life. As in any crowded metropolis, there is fierce rivalry for space, for food and for a partner. But the reef is also a place full of opportunity. A […]
Cuttlefish Mimics Being Female To Mate | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
But most of the creatures come together for a very different reason. To breed. The giant cuttlefish, the largest of all cuttlefish. They live for just one or two years. Now, as the Australian summer draws to an end, they have one last act to complete. To find a mate. But there are over 100,000 […]
The Sex-Shifting Fish | 4KUHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
In the underwater forests off northern Japan, the residents of this sunken wreck are waiting for the summer temperatures to reach 16 degrees Celsius. That, for some, is the time for mating. A kind of giant wrasse, called a kobudai. This is a male. And in female terms, he’s particularly handsome. He’s a meter long […]
The Deadly Portuguese Man O’ War | 4KUHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth
Over half of all animals in the open ocean drift in currents. Jellyfish cross entire oceans feeding on whatever happens to tangle with the tentacles. Some can grow to a meter, even two meters across. And when, by lucky chance, they encounter a patch of sea rich in plankton, their numbers explode. In such a […]