キーワード Insects

ノルマンディー上陸作戦直後、米軍のロジャース大尉は極秘任務を命じられた。生物兵器研究の権威で、ナチスに拉致された女性科学者のエリス博士を救出する危険な作戦。ロジャース率いる特命部隊はルーマニアに飛び、ナチス研究施設の古城に潜入する。だがそこで出逢ったエリス博士は、ナチに寝返って禁断の研究を完成させようとしていた。それは、病原体を仕込んだ虫の大群を世界にバラまき、人類を死滅させ、ウィルスの作用で蘇った“死者の軍団”の力で世界を支配しようという、悪魔の計画だった……。

失われゆく地球の生物多様性。それでも危機は回避できる。デヴィッド・アッテンボローと科学者ヨハン・ロックストロームが、未来を救う実現可能な方法を探る。

ある南海の島。昆虫採集い来ていた混血青年、秋山は一機の飛行機が火を吹いて落下していくのを目撃した。その飛行機は水爆を搭載してベトナムへ向かう途中の米軍戦略爆撃機であった。機は１万メートルの高度で昆虫の大群に襲撃を受けて墜落したのだった。水爆回収のため「折れた矢」作戦が遂行された。捜索隊が島に上陸すると、彼らは顎の肉をえぐり取られて死に絶えた機長、副操縦士、そして、記憶を失ってしまった黒人兵、チャーリーを発見した。彼らの所持品を身につけた秋山は、殺人容疑で逮捕されてしまうのだが…。

Hannah Fry takes a spectacular look at the science of size by imagining a parallel world in which everything is made bigger or smaller.

A four-part global investigation into insect declines, exploring their diversity and their critical roles on the planet. Scientists reveal the beauty of bugs, from pollinators to insect assassins to the tiny clean-up crews that purify the planet.

This story is about Mick, a sleeping chironomid. Insects are taken up into space for use in experiments by humans. An epic space adventure of Mick and his friends of their journey back home to Earth. The development plans and experiments are aborted by humans for no known reason, the organisms are left behind in the space station with limited resources. Going over hurdles and fighting through challenges, together, they travel across planets and gain new comrades, heading for Earth. As their journey progresses, the mystery behind the human’s abandonment unravels…

Camouflage, deception and deadly precision: insects arrive with surprising survival strategies and thus take their place in the animal world. From bomb-igniting beetles, web-throwing spiders to tricky antlions – worldwide, the insect world has developed amazing abilities to protect itself from attackers and obtain food.

Creepy Crawlies was a stop motion animation series created by Cosgrove Hall. The series consisted of 52 ten-minute episodes, which were broadcast on Children's ITV between 1987 and 1989. All episodes were written by Peter Reeves and directed by Franc Vose and Brian Little; narration and character voices were provided by Paul Nicholas. The series was based upon the daily goings-on of a group of common invertebrate creatures that lived at the bottom of a garden around an old sundial. And so another bright new day dawns upon the home of the Creepy Crawlies, Mr Harrison the snooty snail, Suppose the lowly red-nosed worm, Ariadne the spider, the irksome woodlouse-come-pill-bug called Anorak, meek Ladybird, Lambeth the brawny-but-brainless beetle and Ancient the aged caterpillar dwell right down at the bottom of the garden, near the shed, on and around an old broken sundial. Classic Cosgrove Hall stop-motion animation.