Name: Insects as Super Adapters
Uploaded: 2023-08-03 04:56:59
Duration: 52 min 1 s
Description: In order to adapt to different environments, protect themselves from enemies, obtain food, and reproduce, insects have become highly specialized. They transform themselves into completely different creatures, changing their habitat and even food, making insects the most diverse forms of life.

Life on Earth can be fiercely competitive and, at the same time, intricately interconnected as species survive through one another.

Every day in nature, hidden miracles are occurring. Plants are communicating, helping each other thrive. Staying aware of their surroundings by using dozens of highly sensitive sensors, plants are sending signals, even across species. Cutting-edge science is revealing surprising abilities of plants.

The Secret Life of Plants

In order to adapt to different environments, protect themselves from enemies, obtain food, and reproduce, insects have become highly specialized. They transform themselves into completely different creatures, changing their habitat and even food, making insects the most diverse forms of life.

Insects as Super Adapters

Microorganisms are the rulers and guardians of Earth. Because of their simplicity, extremely fast generational change, and super-large population, mutations occur among them in short periods of time. Supported by the diverse superpowers they’ve acquired, life flourishes in interspecies connections.