Intimate Relations

Life in The Undergrowth: Season 1: Episode 4

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Intimate Relations

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BBC | BBC One | Air Date: December 14, 2005
Summary: Episode 4 covers the special relationships between invertebrates with plants or other animals. Included are: aphid-herding ants, gall-inducing insects, and parasitic relationships such as a wasp grub carried by an orchard spider, fairy wasp eggs laid inside eggs of water beetles, and methoca, an ant-like wasp, which paralyzes and thenEpisode 4 covers the special relationships between invertebrates with plants or other animals. Included are: aphid-herding ants, gall-inducing insects, and parasitic relationships such as a wasp grub carried by an orchard spider, fairy wasp eggs laid inside eggs of water beetles, and methoca, an ant-like wasp, which paralyzes and then implants a tiger-beetle larva with its eggs. Expand
Genre(s): Documentary, Science
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