Starting a new show

David Attenborough Voice: “tiny electronic cameras”

Uh mute this thread if bugs freak you out

Ocean bug ocean bugs ocean bugs (I know they’re not bugs hush)

EXTREMELY digital looking. Combined with the distorted lenses I feel like I’m watching a low budget JHorror

Armour

Revealed to be millipedes

Some really intensely close shots, including one that seemed to be between the millipedes legs and shell

“The size of a full stop.”

Sorry in advanced to my followers

Spring tails. They can launch six inches into the air.

Okay Uzumaki

Honestly some of the digital noise is pretty nice

Velvet worm is a full on eldritch horror

Centipede over a foot long that poisons and eats bats is challenging

He’s talking about this slug fucking

In fairness it is impressive

Oh god not sure I like the idea of eathworms so big you can HEAR them moving under you

He’s individually inspecting and cleaning his hundreds of eggs every night

Someone buy me a “special optical probe”

UV scorpions

Dancing scorpions

Alright. First episode done.

Insect thread continues with episode two:

Mayflies: I have no mouth but I must fuck

Not sure I knew this about dragonflies

Love the drama with which he unveils this incredible fossilized dragonfly fragment

Ah vaporwave prehistoric dragonfly replica of course

If you like watching bugs getting it on boy do I have the miniseries for you

I seem to recall a sequence of the same process in Microcosmos?

These damselflies show off to prospective mates by stunting through waterfalls

Thought they were going to go into a Painleve Freshwater Assasins thing for a second with the larvae but maybe not

The scale between new and grown caterpillars is wild

CW gross parasitic wasp larvae

CW gross parasitic wasp larvae 2

Doesn’t cap well but the time lapse of a butterfly expanding its newborn wings is fabulous

My favorite butterfly sequence to date is probably the extreme macro textures bit in Hellstrom Chronicles

Speak of the devil:

Thermal bumblebee footage

Watching little bumblebees warm themselves up and seeing it communicated via a camera literally capturing the heat itself? That’s that good shit

Thermal cameras are a wild thing to think about... imagine lighting a scene via heat

David is teasing horny flies with a pea shooter now

He’s holding the largest beetle, a titan beetle. So big it needs to leap from the tops of trees to get airborne:

Cicada time

This episode ends on a pretty funny note. Attenborough starts leading the cicadas around by imitating the females (via snapping)

At which point the taunted male exacts his revenge.

Gonna post the next episode's worth of caps in a bit but first SPIDER CONTENT WARNING gonna tweet that again before posting I know I have spider hating mutuals and they should mute this thread now