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these touch me not Balsam have sprung up00:00:06
to cover the Woodland floor00:00:10
each night the leaves go limp as The00:00:13
Balsam exudes any excess moisture00:00:17
and the waterlogged soils of the Lake00:00:19
District this is a handy adaptation00:00:42
soon their blooms unfurl00:00:48
as the Petals of these strange-shaped00:00:51
flowers drop off seed pods begin to form00:01:01
these pods are the favorite food of the00:01:04
netted carpet moth caterpillar00:01:13
although it was once thought to be00:01:15
extinct the netted carpet moth survives00:01:19
here in the Lake District its last00:01:21
remaining stronghold00:01:27
touch me not Balsam is their only source00:01:31
of food00:02:04
these plants have a surprise in store00:02:08
their seed heads00:02:12
explode00:02:14
it's how they became known as touch me00:02:18
not00:02:19
but nobody told the caterpillars this00:02:35
thank you00:02:37
the caterpillars have no warning when00:02:40
these little bombs go off00:02:45
just say s that get hurt across the00:02:48
forest floor00:02:59
the Namib Desert one of the most exposed00:03:03
places on Earth00:03:10
as the sun00:03:12
everybody takes cover from the extreme00:03:15
heat00:03:19
everybody except00:03:21
the hot rod ant00:03:28
as others take refuge00:03:31
their day is just beginning00:03:36
cleaning out the nest00:03:39
foreign00:03:45
can reach a scorching 70 centigrade00:03:50
the ants long legs raise their bodies00:03:53
above the surface where it's 10 degrees00:03:56
cooler00:04:00
but if they stand still they will fry00:04:06
they must keep moving or risk the same00:04:08
fate as their Quarry the creatures that00:04:11
have collapsed from heat stroke00:04:13
thank you deeply buried but a good place00:04:17
to cool off00:04:20
foraging decisions must be fast00:04:24
too big00:04:28
perfect00:04:32
back to the nest before they also die00:04:42
but they've strayed into a minefield00:04:50
each of these strange cone-shaped bits00:04:54
is a death trap00:04:57
foreign00:05:07
larvae tiny Ambush Predators with00:05:11
venom-filled pincers00:05:34
some ants managed to escape but the ant00:05:37
lion has other tricks00:05:40
flinging sand into the air it creates an00:05:42
overlash00:05:49
in this cone of death the walls are so00:05:52
angled that the sand slips beneath the00:05:54
ant's feet00:05:59
as Boulders rain from the sky Escape00:06:02
seems almost impossible00:06:15
foreign00:06:29
he hunts ants00:06:39
eating ants may give him more than just00:06:42
nourishment he may get something else00:06:44
from them that helped him fight his00:06:46
enemies00:06:58
the ants launch a counter-attack and nip00:07:01
his ankles00:07:04
but he simply kicks them out of the way00:07:18
the Valiant ants drive him off00:07:21
straight into real Danger00:07:27
a mongoose00:07:34
it's inquisitive00:07:38
but it's also wary of the UK Pista00:07:42
a black and white pattern is a warning00:07:44
signal00:07:45
the beetle takes aim00:07:51
and far's formic acids straight at the00:07:54
Mongoose his eyes and mouth00:08:00
the beetle probably collected this acid00:08:03
from the ants it certainly makes the00:08:05
beetle itself very distasteful and that00:08:07
in turn makes it worth mimicking00:08:10
this defenseless little lizard carries00:08:13
the Beatles warning pattern00:08:17
it also imitates the way the beetle runs00:08:23
not particularly well it's true but well00:08:26
enough to fool Predators into thinking00:08:28
it just might be an acid-firing beetle00:08:42
all kinds of insects have developed00:08:44
chemical weapons00:08:48
a pair of Devil Riders stick insects00:08:55
they far bitter tasting oils terpenes00:09:04
European wood ants under attack from a00:09:07
hungry Crow00:09:09
they far the sort of acid that gives00:09:11
Nettles their sting so this is like one00:09:14
of us falling into a nettle patch00:09:26
but the master of chemical warfare is00:09:29
the bombardier beetle00:09:32
it can create a chemical reaction within00:09:35
its body so violent that boiling caustic00:09:38
liquid explodes out of its abdomen00:09:50
by pulsing the jet 500 times a second it00:09:53
keeps its rear end just cool enough to00:09:55
prevent it being cooked00:10:04
the tasked wetter is New Zealand's00:10:07
equivalent of a mouse00:10:13
and a worthy snack00:10:15
for a foraging Pig00:10:34
with pigs snuffling close behind there00:10:39
is only one place to go00:10:42
and it's the last place you would expect00:11:11
thank you00:11:33
this weather is an escape artist00:11:42
the pigs can't see or smell him when00:11:45
he's underwater00:11:47
thank you00:12:07
he can stay under00:12:10
for up to 10 minutes00:12:29
foreign00:12:43
and now00:12:45
the coast is clear00:12:48
80 million years of isolation have00:12:51
endowed this ancient creature with00:12:53
extraordinary survival skills00:13:01
Army ant00:13:05
this may look like a ball of a million00:13:07
individuals but making a mistake00:13:11
The Colony acts as one00:13:16
a super organism with a sensory system00:13:19
of 2 million antennae00:13:24
a skeleton made from the living bodies00:13:26
of workers00:13:31
a defense system of soldier ants00:13:35
ready to act at any sign of danger00:13:40
a digestive system processing piles of00:13:44
food deep inside00:13:47
even a coordinated system for dealing00:13:51
with all the waste00:13:56
these are insects that by working00:13:58
together transcend individual size00:14:05
The Colony can search the entire jungle00:14:10
and flush out its wildlife00:14:19
each day it sends out a silent probe00:14:22
into the forest00:14:23
the quest of food00:14:32
it doesn't use Scouts like other ants00:14:39
instead a vast search party pushes into00:14:42
Virgin Territory00:14:49
seeking out the Sun of anything alive00:15:05
they spread out along a 10 meter front00:15:08
sweeping across the forest floor00:15:13
to find prey the ants must first touch00:15:16
it00:15:18
the iron is that this the most00:15:21
successful hide and seek player in the00:15:23
forest is almost completely blind00:15:28
it distinguishes the living only by00:15:31
their movement00:15:36
as long as an animal remains still00:15:38
safe00:15:42
but the slightest twitch will give it00:15:45
away00:15:50
within seconds the prey is pinned down00:15:56
within minutes it's torn apart at its00:16:00
joints00:16:04
the more the praise struggles the more00:16:07
the ants engage00:16:13
right across the raid front prey of all00:16:17
sizes are driven from their hiding00:16:19
places00:16:25
than their homes when the ants arrive00:16:33
alive in00:16:35
the Raiders00:16:36
overwhelmed00:16:38
by sheer numbers00:16:44
to survive here you have to be prepared00:16:47
to die here00:16:54
okay00:17:01
but the sun can return as quickly as the00:17:05
storm arrived00:17:07
and a rise of just a few degrees is00:17:10
enough to spark a Thor00:17:12
even Underground00:17:44
frozen solid00:17:46
a mountain stoneweter00:17:50
it has the most extraordinary survival00:17:53
technique of all00:18:08
the ability to come back00:18:11
from the dead00:18:17
only in a specialized filming chamber00:18:20
can we capture its extraordinary Talent00:18:24
the waiter has developed special00:18:26
proteins which prevent ice crystals from00:18:28
forming inside its cells00:18:34
a remarkable trick for a creature whose00:18:36
ancestors once lived in prehistoric warm00:18:39
wet forests00:18:43
but when New Zealand's mountains grew up00:18:46
beneath them around 5 million years ago00:18:49
they were forced to come up with this00:18:50
incredible ability to survive near00:18:52
lethal temperatures00:19:02
defrosting uses up a lot of energy00:19:12
so Mountain snowberries are a welcome00:19:15
sight00:19:21
the waiter needs to stock up while it00:19:23
can00:19:25
the next Antarctic storm could be the00:19:28
return of winter00:19:51
it can tolerate over 80 percent of its00:19:53
body freezing solid and can do so day in00:19:56
and day out for weeks at a time00:20:09
nowhere else in New Zealand00:20:12
does life go to such extremes to survive00:20:16
those bees too young to forage are00:20:19
housekeeping00:20:24
like the Hornet Queen the queen bee has00:20:27
the immeasurable task of laying enough00:20:29
eggs to ensure the health and future of00:20:32
the colony00:20:38
the custom of keeping wild Japanese bees00:20:41
is as old as Society itself and00:20:44
Yamaguchi has kept bees since Boyhood00:20:51
Japanese bees are so sensitive that it00:20:54
takes great patience and skill to keep00:20:56
them00:20:57
the art of keeping them lies in00:21:00
understanding their behavior00:21:03
they make honey stores for the winter00:21:05
but they also produce enough for00:21:07
Yamaguchi to harvest00:21:12
Japanese bees May produce less honey00:21:15
than European bees but the taste is very00:21:18
special00:21:22
it's the smell of this Growing store of00:21:25
energy-rich honey which could be their00:21:28
downfall if it draws in a hornet Scout00:21:34
but right now the Hornets have other00:21:37
problems to contend with00:21:38
The Nest is now monstrous the workers00:21:42
have excavated over a ton of Earth00:21:52
there are so many bodies living at Close00:21:54
Quarters that the queen and her Dynasty00:21:57
are in danger of overheating00:22:02
so workers create air conditioning00:22:05
keeping a steady flow of fresh air00:22:08
circulating00:22:13
being unable to cope with high00:22:15
temperatures is a giant hornets Achilles00:22:18
heel00:22:22
the warmth of The Hornet's Nest belies00:22:25
the change in season00:22:32
s change fast up here in the mountains00:22:35
and when autumn arrives there are far00:22:38
fewer insects around00:22:42
this means my hives are even more00:22:45
vulnerable to attack00:22:49
for me00:22:50
it's an anxious time00:22:57
in the search for autumnal food a scout00:23:01
Hornet discovers yamaguchi's wild bees00:23:12
the honeybees fan an alarm pheromone00:23:14
through the air this alerts the whole00:23:16
Hive to The Hornet's presence00:23:22
Scout smells the honey within a prize00:23:26
this rich is worth scent marking00:23:31
foreign00:23:36
but unlike the European bees these00:23:39
Japanese bees do not attack instead they00:23:42
lure the Scout inside00:23:52
still the bees Hang Fire00:24:00
then one is caught it's the signal the00:24:03
others have been waiting for00:24:17
good00:24:39
surrounded by vibrating bodies The00:24:41
Hornet at the core of the b-ball begins00:24:43
to overheat00:24:46
the bees have the advantage a heat00:24:48
tolerance two degrees above that of00:24:50
their enemy00:24:52
46 degrees Celsius the aggressor is00:24:55
roasted alive00:25:09
the wild bees have spent millions of00:25:12
years living with the Enemy00:25:14
that's why they alone have developed00:25:16
this extraordinary survival strategy00:25:29
he starts his search00:25:34
a female is likely to be on a tree trunk00:25:40
but trees in this part of the world are00:25:43
very tall00:25:48
his search could be a long one00:25:56
unfortunately for him she is 25 meters00:25:59
above him00:26:01
near the top00:26:06
she has more normal sized Jaws00:26:10
but then she only needs them for feeding00:26:14
but he needs immense Jaws for fighting00:26:20
because there are other males around00:26:21
with the same mission00:26:36
sheer strength is not enough in these00:26:38
battles00:26:41
the technique is to reach over your00:26:44
opponent's head00:26:45
and hook your jaws under his wing covers00:26:49
that's why his Jaws are so long and have00:26:53
that odd shape00:26:55
he's got the grip00:26:58
now he has to lift00:27:02
and that needs strength00:27:12
another lift is needed00:27:26
and that's that00:27:30
Beetle armor is strong so he bounces00:27:34
the winner climbs on00:27:37
there are more males ready to fight him00:27:40
up here00:28:15
and here she is at last00:28:23
but she doesn't seem to be in the mood00:28:33
foreign00:28:41
so now he has to use his great Jaws as a00:28:45
restraining cage00:29:02
but the hurling habit dies hard00:29:12
mantids will eat anything that moves00:29:17
including other mountains00:29:34
time to leave00:29:47
this tiny insect is now open to attack00:29:50
from predators lurking in the00:29:52
undergrowth00:30:03
whether an individual mantis survives or00:30:06
not is partly a matter of chance00:30:12
whether it's spotted by a predator00:30:21
whether it turns00:30:23
turns or left00:30:34
so far it's luck has held00:30:38
but this hungry jumping spider is still00:30:41
in Pursuit00:30:47
a mantis is born with exceptional00:30:50
eyesight but as other spiders is even00:30:54
better00:30:59
although this young mantis can't yet fly00:31:02
its long four legs evolved to catch prey00:31:05
give it reach00:31:34
there seems to be no Escape00:31:44
but this mantis has a surprising line in00:31:47
self-defense00:31:50
Kung Fu praying mantis Style00:32:06
of course it's all Bluff00:32:08
trying to look bigger and confuse its00:32:11
enemy00:32:15
but it's got away with it00:32:25
just staying alive for its first few00:32:28
hours is a significant accomplishment00:32:31
for a newly hatched insect00:32:34
but there's still a long way to go00:32:37
with a bit of luck in two months time it00:32:40
will be a big and beautiful as this00:32:43
Orchid mounted00:32:56
or maybe not00:32:59
after all mantids are cannibals00:33:06
by pooling their resources the Queens00:33:09
have survived their first major00:33:11
challenge00:33:12
but this Coalition can't last00:33:17
tensions are already on the rise as the00:33:20
Queen's jostle for position within the00:33:22
Royal Court00:33:25
the weaker Crouch submissively before00:33:27
the more dominant including the founding00:33:30
Queen00:33:34
so Begins the delicate maneuvering that00:33:37
will soon take on a deadly significance00:33:42
those at the bottom of the hierarchy00:33:44
have little chance of surviving the00:33:46
coming trials00:33:52
another struggle for control is also00:33:55
beginning above ground00:33:58
the Corral nest is not the only one in00:34:02
Horseshoe Canyon00:34:04
the desert floor is littered with00:34:06
similar sized colonies00:34:08
and there's not enough room for all of00:34:10
them00:34:12
now the darker side of the honey ants00:34:14
emerges00:34:18
time for the Corral colony to mount a00:34:20
preemptive strike on its nearest00:34:21
Neighbors00:34:33
this Killing Spree continues through the00:34:36
summer until the Corral Colony has00:34:38
eliminated all the other new nests in00:34:40
their immediate neighborhood00:34:50
the foundations of the empire00:34:53
have been laid00:34:58
Underground 2 events have taken a darker00:35:02
turn00:35:04
one of the Queens lies dead in the Royal00:35:07
chamber00:35:09
it's not clear why but the workers have00:35:13
started singling out the weaker Queens00:35:15
for special attention00:35:19
at first it's all very subtle00:35:22
one isn't Fed so often or cleaned as00:35:25
diligently00:35:29
but then the workers start bullying and00:35:32
harassing their chosen victim00:35:38
finally00:35:40
spills over into direct attack00:35:42
and the workers tear the chosen Queen to00:35:52
people nothing can go to waste even a00:35:56
royal carcass00:36:00
workers carry hungry larvae over to00:36:03
Feast on the dead Queen00:36:05
including many that must have been her00:36:08
own offspring00:36:17
as the weeks pass00:36:20
the revolution continues00:36:24
only the most dominant Royals seem00:36:26
immune to attack00:36:29
they just watch and wait00:36:32
as the workers go about their gruesome00:36:34
business00:36:37
when the air itself becomes saturated00:36:40
and the temperature is just right00:36:43
red giants emerge00:37:03
a paella Fanta snail00:37:05
it can grow to the size of a man's fist00:37:11
foreign00:37:18
they can only be filmed in captivity00:37:21
where their extraordinary behavior is00:37:24
revealed00:37:27
still a mystery as to exactly how they00:37:29
track down their food00:37:33
but one thing is for sure00:37:36
this snail has unusual tastes00:37:40
and revolting table banners00:38:36
its mouth envelops and suffocates the00:38:39
earthworm00:38:50
it sucked down like spaghetti00:39:11
for anything bigger it's got six00:39:14
thousand teeth ready to shred the next00:39:17
meal00:39:22
in this supersaturated environment this00:39:26
specialized snail is the ultimate00:39:29
predator00:39:31
the rains have arrived in the mountains00:39:33
of East Africa00:39:35
oh00:39:37
one of the most organized swarms on00:39:39
Earth has appeared above ground00:39:43
they are driver ants an insect with a00:39:46
fearsome reputation00:39:53
in the rainy season they form these00:39:56
extraordinary hunting trails00:40:01
large soldier ants line the trail00:40:04
protecting the smaller workers inside00:40:06
their massive Jaws create an impregnable00:40:09
barricade00:40:12
the soldiers create these protective00:40:15
tunnels whenever they cross open ground00:40:18
please00:40:27
the trails radiate from the nest in00:40:30
every direction some stretch 100 meters00:40:32
a worker running at full Pelt takes 4500:40:35
minutes to run its length00:40:39
the soldiers protect the trail at any00:40:41
cost00:40:48
although blind they are highly sensitive00:40:51
to vibrations and air currents and00:40:53
become instantly defensive when under00:40:55
attack00:40:58
stress pheromones put the whole task00:41:00
force on alert they are ready to take on00:41:03
anything including people00:41:10
they are programmed to keep the trail00:41:12
moving or die trying00:41:22
our ants are the stuff of Legend00:41:26
it is said that they kill everything00:41:28
that crosses their path it is said that00:41:30
no animal is safe when they're on the00:41:32
warpath it is even said that they will00:41:34
enter Huts to attack people or kill00:41:36
babies left unattended in their courts00:41:46
the truth is somewhat different00:41:49
although the bites are painful against00:41:51
people they are purely defensive the00:41:53
Jaws May slice through human flesh like00:41:55
butter but it's simply a warning00:42:03
despite the myths driver ants are still00:42:06
ruthless Killers but in a way that often00:42:09
benefits the villagers00:42:11
dangerous pests like scorpions are00:42:14
quickly set upon by the ants00:42:18
even the Scorpion's deadly sting is00:42:21
powerless against this invincible Army00:42:23
both workers and soldiers join the00:42:25
attack dividing up their rules according00:42:28
to their size00:42:32
as some look for a in its leg00:42:34
armor others prize open its body plates00:42:37
like a tin opener00:42:45
with its sting immobilized and faced by00:42:47
such overwhelming odds the Scorpion00:42:49
eventually gives up the fight00:42:55
the dismembered body is hauled back down00:42:57
the trail to feed the nest00:43:12
the farmer's Fields provide even more00:43:14
opportunities for the Attack Force00:43:19
pests disturbed by digging are soon00:43:21
dispatched by hundreds of razor sharp00:43:24
Jaws00:43:28
the ants make a clean sweep capturing up00:43:31
to 100 000 insects in a single raid00:43:40
despite the ants formidable reputation00:43:42
most Farmers value their role as pest00:43:45
controllers00:43:49
in defense of the trail the ants take no00:43:51
prisoners but even an innocuous looking00:43:54
insect can be surprisingly dangerous00:44:01
the soil millipede is killed quickly but00:44:04
the soldiers highly sensitive antennae00:44:06
immediately reveal that it's poisonous00:44:10
the message soon reaches nearby ants00:44:13
they know exactly what to do00:44:15
they gather lumps of mud and bury the00:44:18
problem00:44:42
with the millipede out of Harm's Way the00:44:45
trail can safely continue its Journey00:44:50
but more dangers await the Trailblazers00:44:58
a praying mantis plucks unsuspecting00:45:01
ants from the column00:45:09
he seems to have the upper hand but the00:45:11
ants he kills send out a dying message00:45:15
reacting to this pheromone00:45:17
reinforcements arrive00:45:20
the Mantis is a deadly predator but the00:45:23
ants know exactly what they're dealing00:45:25
with00:45:30
one soldier grabs the mantis's Jaws00:45:33
stopping it from doing any more damage00:45:41
other ants swarm over the Mantis00:45:43
butchering it with surgical precision00:45:59
the mantis's fate is sealed by a00:46:02
clinical decapitation00:46:07
foreign00:46:15
are taken into the new nest00:46:21
here they're safe the millions of00:46:23
interlocking ants that make up the nest00:46:25
superstructure create an impenetrable00:46:28
barrier00:46:47
only from the outside is it possible to00:46:50
get an idea of the nest's huge scale00:46:59
literally millions of individuals form a00:47:02
nervous Network that communicates using00:47:05
pheromones00:47:09
as ants pass messages to each other they00:47:11
effectively act like brain cells00:47:20
through the millions of interconnections00:47:22
they arrive at a decision that works for00:47:25
the benefit of the colony00:47:31
like human brain cells individual ants00:47:33
are not intelligent but the links00:47:35
between them create a mind an ant Super00:47:39
Brain00:47:50
deep inside is the00:47:53
is the her rule is to replenish The00:47:55
Colony by laying two million eggs a00:47:58
month00:48:03
is merely an egg-laying machine under00:48:06
the collective command of all the ants00:48:07
that make up the mind of the hive00:48:12
the ants create a different kind of00:48:14
intelligence a brain that exists outside00:48:17
any single body00:48:31
foreign00:48:38
there is no other species on the planet00:48:40
that responds as quickly and as00:48:42
dramatically to the good times as the00:48:45
desert Locust00:48:47
eggs that have remained in the ground00:48:49
for 20 years begin to hatch00:49:04
the young locusts are known as Hoppers00:49:06
for at this stage they're flightless00:49:09
they find new feeding grounds by00:49:12
following the smell of sprouting grass00:49:21
normally it takes four weeks for Hoppers00:49:24
to become adults but when the conditions00:49:26
are right as now their development00:49:28
switches to the fast track00:49:35
as the vegetation in one place begins to00:49:38
run out the winged adults release00:49:40
phantomones sent messages which tell00:49:43
others in the group that they must move00:49:45
on00:49:56
and when groups merge they form a swarm00:50:01
oh00:50:22
an adult Lucas eats its entire body00:50:25
weight every day and a whole swarm can00:50:28
consume literally hundreds of tons of00:50:31
vegetation00:50:33
they have to keep on moving00:50:36
the Swarm Travels With the Wind it's the00:50:40
most energy-saving way of flying00:50:46
following the flow of wind means that00:50:49
they're always heading toward areas of00:50:51
low pressure places where wind meets00:50:53
rain and vegetation starts to grow00:50:58
as they fly swarms join up with other00:51:01
swarms to form gigantic plagues several00:51:05
billion strong and as much as 40 miles00:51:07
wide00:51:10
they will consume every edible thing00:51:13
that lies in their path00:51:28
this is one of Planet earth's greatest00:51:30
spectacles00:51:32
it's rarely seen on the scale and it00:51:34
won't last long00:51:36
once the food has gone the steady Roar00:51:39
of a billion beating Locust Wings will00:51:42
once again be replaced by nothing more00:51:44
than the sound of the Desert Wind00:51:49
we've seen how managing Woodland and00:51:52
farmland for butterflies can preserve00:51:54
the countryside we love and also how00:51:56
butterflies can Inspire the Next00:51:58
Generation to protect it00:52:02
but if you still have doubts about00:52:04
whether butterflies can make our00:52:06
Countryside a better place then you need00:52:08
look no further than the humble00:52:10
caterpillar00:52:12
because if there's one thing we've00:52:13
learned from them00:52:15
it's the change is possible00:52:23
this is a brimstone00:52:27
it emerged from an egg a few weeks ago00:52:30
but now it's ready for a change00:52:36
first it spins a silken pad00:52:39
place to Anchor hooks on the rear of its00:52:42
body00:52:47
in a move to rival a contortionist it00:52:50
passes strands of silk behind itself00:52:53
creating a girdle to support it through00:52:55
the change to come00:53:10
with anchor and line secure00:53:13
the transformation can take place00:53:22
caterpillar is a little more than00:53:24
stomachs on legs00:53:27
but that body has served its purpose00:53:31
and can be discarded00:53:33
favor00:53:37
's head is about to split wide open and00:53:40
when it does something very different00:53:43
will emerge00:53:50
chrysalis00:53:53
the caterpillar was an eating machine00:53:56
an identity rolled up like a sock and00:54:00
discarded00:54:03
this body is for something different an00:54:07
agent of near-miraculous change and one00:54:10
responsible for making butterflies00:54:11
powerful symbols of Hope and00:54:14
transformation00:54:17
this is a sign that something beautiful00:54:20
is surely on its way00:54:26
the Chrysalis is one of the most00:54:28
enduring symbols in the natural worldDescription:
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