Micro Monsters With David Attenborough

David Attenborough employs the latest technologies to explore the violence, rivalries and deadly weaponry existing within the world of bugs.

David Attenborough continues his bug-eyed view of the world of creepy-crawlies, revealing how predators defuse the defences of their prey.

A further selection of creepy-crawly close-ups, focusing on courtship in the bug world. Highlights include scorpions shaking their booty, the perfume-wearing nasonia wasp and the tropical cricket, for whom romance goes out of the window as it uses bribery to seal the deal with would-be partners.

A close-up view of sex, bug-style, as David Attenborough talks viewers through the different ways in which creepy-crawlies reproduce.

While most of the series has focused on conflict, this episode is all about co-operation. The suitably named social spiders spin one enormous, 30m web for the whole colony, a queen bee rules her hive with a strict hierarchy and some green ants show great team spirit to help build a nest together.

In Argentina, David Attenborough he observes some cousins of the leafcutters who are part of a community so vast it spans an entire continent. It's one of the mandible-dropping facts in a look at one of the key inventions of arthropods: colonies.

Making of Micro Monsters, a thrilling voyage into a realm that's close to us yet quite inaccessible to the naked eye and confusing to human sensibilities - the strange, weird and wonderful world of bugs.