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  1. Insects: Food and Feeding Habits (1978 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min.

    Shows different foods eaten by insects and the ways in which the insects have adapted to the particular foods they eat.

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  2. Water Insects (1977 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Boulton
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min.

    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...

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  3. Social Insects (1976 Video)

    Director
    Peter Boulton
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

    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...

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  4. Cain and Abel (Ants) (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willcock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  5. Comparative Study of Antennal Communications in the Domestic Bee and Social Wasps (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  6. Old Plantation, The (Jamaica) (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  7. Deceivers, The (Moths) (1974 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  8. Mayfly and the Trout, The (1974 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  9. Ontogenetic Analysis of Care Behaviour of Ant Egg Nests (1974 Film)

    Producer
    P Jaisson
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  10. Wood Ant ‘Formica Rufa’, The (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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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