Micro Monsters is a thrilling voyage into a realm that is close to us yet quite inaccessible to the naked eye and confusing to human sensibilities - the strange, weird and wonderful world of bugs.
EPISODE 1
Conflict
A look at the ways in which arthropods manage to survive among a world of social networking and courtship, disguise and espionage, rape and pillage, parenthood and relationships.
EPISODE 2
Predator
It's a bug-eating world out there, and the documentary continues with a look at how the various critters disable the defences of their respective prey.
EPISODE 3
Courtship
Dating is just as tricky a business in the insect world, and Sir David Attenborough finds out how certain bugs choose and then woo their partners.
EPISODE 4
Reproduction
Sir David Attenborough reveals how different bugs usher in the next generation, including the butterfly and harvestman spider.
EPISODE 5
Family
Sir David Attenborough zooms in on a set of bugs who prefer cooperation to conflict. Features the likes of the burrowing cockroach and the queen bee.
EPISODE 6
Colony
Sir David Attenborough takes a tour of the insect world's vast colonies, which rival human megacities in terms of size and complexity.
David Attenborough
Alex Hemingway
Tim Usborne
Anthony Geffen
Celia Taylor
Sias Wilson
Elik Alvarez
Joel Douek
Freddy Sheinfeld