Success Story: How Insects Survive

Duration: 27

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses time-lapse and underwater photography to illustrate the success and adaptability of insects. Gives examples of a wide variety of adaptations including wings, shortened life cycles, versatile food utilization, camouflage, chemical protection, and mimicry. Examines instinctive patterns, including the dance of the honey bee, to emphasize the diversity of insect behavior., Shows how insects have adapted successfully to a variety of environments and how they are capable of utilizing almost every available food form. Explains how their astonishing defense capabilities have evolved through instinctive behavior and physical adaptations.

Complete Record: Uses time-lapse and underwater photography to illustrate the success and adaptability of insects. Gives examples of a wide variety of adaptations including wings, shortened life cycles, versatile food utilization, camouflage, chemical protection, and mimicry. Examines instinctive patterns, including the dance of the honey bee, to emphasize the diversity of insect behavior., , Shows how insects have adapted successfully to a variety of environments and how they are capable of utilizing almost every available food form. Explains how their astonishing defense capabilities have evolved through instinctive behavior and physical adaptations.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.