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Shows different foods eaten by insects and the ways in which the insects have adapted to the particular foods they eat.
Shows the ways in which insects have evolved to conquer new environments. Shows examples of species that have taken to living on the surface of the water,; the semi-aquatic insects that live beneath the...
Aims to illustrate the underlying similarities between the different insect social groupings. Social behaviour in insects is found among bees, wasps, ants and termites. The organisation of each group is...
In the high forests of northern Trinidad, a rich and varied habitat, two kinds of ant have adopted contrasting ways of making a living. The driver ants are wandering hunters which scour the forest floor for...
Shows how tactile signals govern the begging for, or the refusal of regurgitated food among workers in a bee or wasp society. The ritual acts of begging or refusal are progressively established after...
In an overgrown tonka bean plantation in the hill forests of Trinidad, looks at the giant locust, the hairy bird-eating spider, a six-inch snake which hunts termites, a termite colony, hercules ants and the...
Moths are not only among the most beautiful and varied members of the insect community, they are also the most vulnerable. They have to depend largely on fraud to escape their enemies. Looks at the many...
Looks at the underwater lives not only of trout and mayfly but also the other inhabitants of the trout stream. Trout spawn, a dipper flies underwater, a pike attacks, bullheads bark at each other in...
Examines the development of pupal cocoon recognition in the brood-nursing behaviour of ants ('Formica spp.). Shows experimental procedures that purport to demonstrate that 1) recognition is not innate but...
An ‘off-the-cuff’ record of work being done on a field course in the Knapdale Forest area. Concentrates on the ongoing work being done with wood ants and is aimed at priming future groups of students by...
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