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Looks at several types of ant species and explains their differences in building houses. Discusses why ant house building is dependent on teamwork. Observes ants building colonies and explores the jobs of different ants in a community. Outlines the life stages of ants. Describes how the lives of ants differ according to the sex of an ant. Explains how ants use the sense of smell to communicate.
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Stacey Combes, a biomechanist at Harvard University, and her team are using high speed cameras to help them study how dragonflies pull off complicated aerial feats that include hunting and mating in mid-air. They can fly straight up, straight down, hover like helicopters and disappear in a blur. Combes is also exploring the use of dragonflies for mosquito control.
The monarch butterfly migration is one of nature’s greatest events. This orange-winged wonder travels up to 4,500 km from all over North America to spend the winter hanging from oyamel fir trees in central Mexico’s mountain forests. But how does an animal with a brain the size of a sesame seed navigate to this one special place? Part of the "It's Okay to Be Smart" series.
There's a most unusual gym in ecologist Sonia Altizer’s lab at the University of Georgia. The athletes are monarch butterflies, and their workouts are carefully monitored to determine how parasites impact their flight performance. With support from the National Science Foundation, Altizer and her team study how animal behavior, including long distance migration, affects the spread and evolution of infectious disease. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
This episode focuses on spooky science stories. One of the segments features footage from the bird prep lab at The Field Museum. Host Emily Graslie also discusses how animals are disease reservoirs, and how the incomplete notes of Dr. Elias Francis Shipman still haunts science today. Part of the "Natural News From The Field Museum" series. Please note this title shows animal dissection.
Harvester ants have a reputation for military precision, but one researcher in Colorado suggests they are more like a commune of free spirits. With no single ant in charge, harvester ants use chemical information and scent to the same effect that humans use visual information to determine their daily regimen. Wild Chronicles takes an up-close look at how altering an ant's chemical cues can change a colony's behavior and cause a mock battle. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Segment.
Part of the "Branches on the Tree of Life" series. Worms with segmented bodies make up the phylum Annelida. Explores the three classes of annelids: Class Polychaeta (feeding, locomotion, and larval stages), Class Oligochaeta (lifestyles, feeding adaptations, and anatomy of freshwater oligochaetes and earthworms), and Class Hirudinea (leeches, crayfish, and worms show adaptations for commensal, parasitic, and scavenger lifestyles). DNA evidence places annelids close to the molluscs on the tree of life.
Non-native plants in homeowner's yards endanger wildlife, and experts recommend planting more than 70 percent native plants so plants, insects, and birds can thrive. Additionally, researchers are tracking the spread of neurodegenerative diseases in brains. Other segments include fracking wastewater accumulation found in freshwater mussels' shells and a new protein sequencing method used in biological research. Part of the "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week" series.
Without plants, perhaps the most important producers in the food chain, the world as we know it would not exist. Like all livings things, plants go through a series of life processes, the most important being reproduction and adaptation. How can plants grow everywhere? How does a species spread itself over great distances and into a variety of habitats? Investigates the characteristics and diversity of the ingenious solutions flowering plants, including fruit plants, have devised for propagation.
Climb aboard the Cyclops, a microscopic research vessel, and investigate an amazing hidden world on which all living things depend. The Cyclops houses a team of scientists known as the Micronauts and guides them through their discoveries of biological classification, diversity, and ecology. In this episode, the Micronauts leave the Cyclops behind as they enter the forest on a new voyage of exploration. They assemble their land vessel, the Terra Nova, and begin to investigate the life found the soil. Part 9 of the Microscopic Monsters Series.
The beewolf is a digger wasp that preys on honey bees. A beewolf mother stings a honey bee and deposits an egg on the bee’s paralyzed body. When the beewolf larva hatches, it can feed on the honey bee. Scientists discovered that the beewolf’s antennae are packed with bacteria called Streptomyces, which produce a variety of antibiotic substances. The beewolf spreads the antibiotic-producing bacteria on the cocoon in which the larva develops. In this way, the larva is protected from being infected by harmful bacteria and fungi. Part of the "I Contain Multitudes" series.
Climb aboard the Cyclops, a microscopic research vessel, and investigate an amazing hidden world on which all living things depend. The Cyclops houses a team of scientists known as the Micronauts and guides them through their discoveries of biological classification, diversity, and ecology. In this episode, the Micronauts take to the air and discover that lawns and flower gardens are home to a variety of insect pollinators and predators. From the air, they witness the role insects play in the backyard ecosystem. Part 11 of Microscopic Monsters Series.
Imagine robots no bigger than a fingertip scrambling through the rubble of a disaster site to search for victims or to assess damage. That’s the vision of engineer Sarah Bergbreiter and her research team at the University of Maryland. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), they’re building micro-robots to create legs that will ultimately allow a millimeter-scale robot to traverse rough terrain at high speeds. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
Climb aboard the Cyclops, a microscopic research vessel, and investigate an amazing hidden world on which all living things depend. The Cyclops houses a team of scientists known as the Micronauts and guides them through their discoveries of biological classification, diversity, and ecology. In this episode, the Cyclops is swept over a waterfall and becomes trapped inside a plastic bottle, which turns out to be the ideal place to observe aquatic insects inhabiting the white water of the rapids. Part 8 of the Microscopic Monsters Series.
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. As Tim delivers the last of the season's honey to his grandfather's customers, the jars get broken. Tim's solution is simple: get more honey from some bees. But Ms. Frizzle sweetens the idea by turning her class into bees and showing them a beehive up close and personal.
The world’s largest scientific archive of animal signal recordings is housed at the Macaulay Library. The library is partnering with other institutions to curate and digitize an enormous archive of animal audio and video recordings from their vaults. The analogue material in the library’s collection includes recordings of birds, frogs, fish, and insects going back a few decades. Accessible digital audio recordings of these animal signals will make it easier for researchers to investigate a host of scientific questions. Part of the "Science Nation" series.
Details the anatomy of the honeybee. Also details the roles of drones, worker bees, the queen, and the mystery of the honeybees' dance. Follows the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) problem to a variety of laboratories, investigating the pathology of bee diseases that are wiping out entire colonies and affecting our food supply. Concludes with the discovery that a viral infection is the most likely cause of CCD but warns that bees are subject to many other stresses that can upset the ecological balance and wipe out our supplies of fruits and vegetables.
Queen Bees are not actually in charge of anything. Their job is to lay eggs, not to rule the hive. With support from the National Science Foundation, entomologist Gene Robinson and mechanical engineer Harry Dankowicz at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have teamed up with psychologist Whitney Tabor at the University of Connecticut to study how coordination emerges in leaderless complex societies, such as a bee hive. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. The class visits the inside of an anthill when Keesha directs a movie about social animals for the school science fair. Watching the ants at close range, the class realizes how social the ants are and how each one performs a vital job for the survival of its colony.
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. The class laughs at Phoebe when she suggests they make a butterfly into their new team mascot. But are butterflies as wimpy as the kids think? Ms. Frizzle certainly doesn't think so. She takes the class on a whirlwind adventure to unmask what a 'bog beast' is, and they find out just how tough butterflies can be.
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