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A caterpillar curled in a circle, mostly encased in a protective covering. Caption: Then the caterpillar goes to sleep.
24 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Close up on human skin with small hairs scattered. A mosquito has landed on the skin and blood has spilled around the mosquito's feet. Text reads, “A World Without…Mosquitoes.”
A World Without
Episode 2
53 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Standing outside are two women; one is wearing butterfly wings and a headband with pink antennas, while the other holds a camera.
5 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Teacher uses a hair clip attached to her arm to hold a ball of yellow clay, demonstrating how a bee carries pollen.
4 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Aerial view of mostly bare light brown land with low lying trees. Caption: Termites are extremely territorial
7 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a large ant with two green leaves over it and a person standing in front of it. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 14
13 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
Butterfly on pink flowers with green foliage. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 17
13 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
An illustrated ladybug in flowers. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 1
12 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A close up of an ant. Caption: Attached to the thorax are the ant's six legs.
12 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Several ants, two carrying larvae. Caption: (narrator) Then the ants build a protective wall across the entrance.
11 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Close up of a cockroach head and body. Caption: A bunch of 'em -- American cockroaches.
Backyard Bugs & Other Arthropods
Episode 2
11 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Hand holding a magnifying glass pointing to something on the ground. Caption: Do you see it?
Backyard Bugs & Other Arthropods
Episode 1
13 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Spider with long narrow legs and a small narrow body at the center of a delicate spider web. Caption: Spiders are arachnids.
Backyard Bugs & Other Arthropods
Episode 3
14 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Close up of honeybees. Caption: which give the honeybee over 12,000 views all at once.
12 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Two women sitting at a desk look at us with curiosity. Caption reads: “Facebook Question: Sheila, Indianapolis.”
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
A butterfly lodging on a grass. Spanish Caption: un puntito aqui y otro puntito aca.
Bios: Nature and Society (Spanish)
Episode 1
31 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Book cover shows an illustration of two mermaids from Bubble Guppies playing with a dog with a fishtail as several insects look on. Text reads, “Leap Frog Get Ready to Read Series. Nickelodeon Bubble Guppies. Bug’s Day Out.”
7 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 5
Two arachnids lying on their backs; one has a small abdomen and the other a large abdomen, displaying the bug’s ability to expand its body when it eats.
3 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Two women wearing headlamps walk out of a dark cave onto mossy rocks.
5 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
ASL
Title text reads, “Bugs!” against a black background.
9 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of bare feet on the ground with ladybugs and plants. Caption: I want to see bugs.
8 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: K - 4
Person pulls a slab of honeycomb out of a bee hive as several bees buzz nearby.
6 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
ASL
Title text reads, “Butterflies," against a bakcground that shows the dark silhouette of a butterfly.
8 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A close up of a single bee on a honeycomb. Caption: Connected to the thorax are wings.
24 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
A close up of a yellow and black butterfly on a flower. Caption: Have you seen them fly past you,
15 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Honeybee Farm (Queen Bee)
Carolina Snaps
Episode 9
1 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Microscopic image of a pale white flea with a long body and tail.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 5
4 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup on the face of a Tsetse fly with red eyes, pale body and an elongated appendage extending out from a black bulb at the bottom of its head.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 2
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a sundew plant made up of long yellowish leaves and red tentacles, each with a sticky gland at the tip.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 15
3 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup on a glasswing butterfly perched on a fingertip. It has a black body with white stripes, and transparent webbed wings with opaque, dark brown borders tinted with orange.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 10
5 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cyberchase cartoon. A sheet of paper with several illustrations that are labeled Browns. Illustrations include dirt, straw, paper, and leaves.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 20
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A honey bee sucks nectar from a flower.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 9
4 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Microscopic photo of a louse crawling along a single strand of hair.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 6
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of red ants crawling across the dirt, each carrying a small white object.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 16
4 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a sand pit with a slight depression. A small shiny oval object is visible in the center.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 11
4 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a wasp with a black body, short antennas and transparent wings.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 5
4 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing headphones points a laser at a sharpshooter insect attached to a grapevine.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 9
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a spiderweb stretching across a gap in what appears to be a wood log.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 20
4 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of an insect that has a long thin brown body that looks like a twig with short arms branching off. Its head looks like a long bright transparent leaf.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 17
4 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a baby hairworm insect with a mottled light and dark brown body and thin legs crawling over a plant.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 3
4 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a barely visible bee enveloped in a blurry light brown object.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 15
4 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Microscopic image of a cylindrical mosquito egg that's dark brown in color with hundreds of white dots that look like polka dots.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 6
3 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A photo depicts flies on the surface of a fruit.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 18
4 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black beetle with thin, spidery legs and black and white antennas crawls down a thin sheet of dirty fabric.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 8
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of an Indian walking stick camouflaged in twigs and leaves. It's brown with a long, thin body and legs.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 7
4 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a light brown insect with a round flat body and short setae, or hair-like structures on its legs and mid-body.
Deep Look
Season 6 / Ep 12
4 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a light brown cricket camouflaged in the dirt.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 1
4 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Side view closeup of a hissing cockroach showing its shiny black body covered in hair-like bristles, pale abdomen, and horns.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 3
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Dark room with a wreath on the wall that is dimly lit with string lights weaved inside of it.
Emily Graslie's Art Lab
Season 1 / Ep 1
12 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Emily Graslie sits in front of a bookcase and looks at us while she talks.
Emily Graslie's Art Lab
Season 1 / Ep 3
11 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Color illustration of a personified purple cactus holding a blue flower. Title card reads, "Flower Talk, How Plants Use Color to Communicate."
15 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Lion running with prey in the background. Spanish captions.
Franja Metro (Spanish)
Episode 8
12 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Color illustration of a boy wearing full fishing gear, dragging a red wagon that contains a jar with holes in the lids and bird cage behind him.
7 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Close up of bees on a honeycomb. Caption: As the liquid nectar dries, it thickens and changes
Farm To Market
Season 0 / Ep 11
10 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
White beetle grub burrows into the earth.
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
White title text reads, "Smell," against a black background.
4 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Aerial closeup of handing using a black pencil to sketch a butterfly with outstretched wings on white paper.
5 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Micros images of an insect.
I Contain Multitudes
Episode 7
9 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A diagram shows illustrations of butterflies, wasps, bees, and caterpillars.
I Contain Multitudes
Episode 6
9 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
View of the University of California, Berkeley’s Football stadium. Text reads, “Berkeley, California.”
In Our Nature
Episode 5
17 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A butterfly emerging from the cocoon. Caption: This process is called "metamorphosis."
21 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Aerial view of a honey bee with two blue arrows connected at one end pointing towards each wing.
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Digital illustration. Macro depiction of a tick crawling on a cratered beige surface. Long, hair-like extensions surround it.
Into the Outdoors
Episode 4
7 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Woman sits in a room with a space mural and a bookcase behind her. There’s an image of a spring coil next to her.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 19
12 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Different math equations and graphs are drawn, with a butterfly as the backdrop.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 7
9 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Seven different butterflies, where four are placed at the corners facing the butterfly at the center and two at either side of the central butterfly.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 11
11 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A world map illustrates the amount of bug species consumed, on a scale from 0 to 300 plus.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 27
14 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Close up of a black insect with translucent black wings and black antenna. Caption: our killer can locate her victims remotely.
28 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of an animal with a long neck and dinosaur-like head emerging from the water. Spanish captions.
Kool Books (Spanish)
Episode 68
12 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
Still image from: Lab Six: Insects (Spanish)
Lab Six (Spanish)
Season 2 / Ep 7
24 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Lab Six: Insects II (Spanish)
Lab Six (Spanish)
Season 2 / Ep 8
27 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Lab Six: The Queen and the Drone (Spanish)
Lab Six (Spanish)
Season 1 / Ep 12
27 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Animated puppet, Marvie smiles with her mouth open wide in a child's colorful bedroom. Caption. It's called "The Flight of the Lady Bug."
Marvie
Episode 24
1 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: K - 4
Microscopic view of roughly oval shaped organisms. Caption: We've found what these stream insects feed on -- diatoms.
Microscopic Monsters
Episode 7
4 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Magnified view of thin, tangled threads. Caption: a fungus composed of a tangled mass of threads
Microscopic Monsters
Episode 9
4 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
closeup of beige and brown insects in wood. Caption: They'll soon reduce this log to frass.
Microscopic Monsters
Episode 10
4 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Close up of a monarch butterfly feeding from a purple flower. Spanish captions.
47 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Close up of a very large brown moth with a large spot on each of its four wings and dark dots on the tip of two of them. Caption: And that led into studying bat-moth interactions,
10 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial view of a large pond behind a complex of red brick buildings. A small white tent is to the right of the buildings, and a large array of solar panels is to the left of the buildings. Evergreen trees surround it all.
Museum Access
Season 2 / Ep 9
28 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of two people in a basket passing by tree roots. Caption: You're just passing through the root level.
My Little Planet
Episode 14
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Illustration of three insects sitting on a ceiling beam, looking down on a fourth insect who is talking to two children in bed. Caption: (Suzie) Do you know the story of the princess dragonfly?
My Little Planet
Episode 26
5 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Stacks of man-made box hives with bees swarming them. Caption: Now, they prepare to unload their shipments of livestock--
Nature
Season 26 / Ep 1
29 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two people with tools in their hands in a desert-like setting, digging in a mound of earth. Caption: Searching for these 112 to 98 million-year-old remains,
Natural News From The Field Museum
Season 0 / Ep 3
5 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Close-up of a golden dragonfly holding onto a stem amid a backdrop of green leaves.
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 7
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Ants climbing on the shoots of grass.
Nature's Microworlds: Insect Specials
Season 3 / Ep 2
29 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A butterfly with its wing spread out and sitting on a flower.
Nature's Microworlds: Insect Specials
Season 3 / Ep 3
29 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A locust chews on a shoot of grass.
Nature's Microworlds: Insect Specials
Season 3 / Ep 1
29 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a red-brownish Armored Ground Cricket creeping over the edge of a piece of wood.
On Safari With Nala
Episode 42
2 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black centipede with bright orange legs crawls down a roughly textured tree branch.
On Safari With Nala
Episode 36
2 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Swarm of locusts fills the frame, flying against a bright blue sky.
On Safari With Nala
Episode 27
4 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Brown and black millipede with small yellow legs crawls on the underside of a branch.
On Safari With Nala
Episode 32
3 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Bright green praying mantis with its arms up, sitting among the leaves of a plant.
On Safari With Nala
Episode 45
2 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Dozens of flying termites lying on the ground, scattered among disembodied termite wings.
On Safari With Nala
Episode 41
2 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Paul Meisel holds up his book called "My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis." On the cover, a green praying mantis perches on the stem of a bright red, spiky flower, looking up towards a butterfly flying above.
Read Out Loud
Episode 61
5 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Closeup of a tick on a leaf. Lyme Disease. Caption: Ticks are carriers of Lyme disease.
Real World Science
Episode 20
13 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Small light and dark brown butterfly with wings closed sitting on a leaf. Caption: (Sally) Some of these butterflies are challenging--
Roaming the Red Hills
Episode 11
5 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close up circuitry. Penny included for scale. Circuitry is smaller than the penny. Caption: at the University of Maryland are building microrobots,
Science Nation
Episode 46
2 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Monarch butterflies on foliage. Caption: In monarchs, they study a parasite.
Science Nation
Episode 65
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A light blue and white stripped caterpillar on a person's finger. Caption: (male) This little guy can grip, hold, and move.
Science Nation
Episode 161
2 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black butterflies with orange and white wings on a bright orange flower. Caption: (narrator) The colors signal to birds, "Don't eat me, I'm toxic."
Science Nation
Episode 137
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person pointing at the ground. Caption: study the ants as an invasive species
Science Nation
Episode 66
2 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two insects on a plant. Caption: insects, usually males, have some signature moves:
Science Nation
Episode 222
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A line of ants carrying pieces of leaf larger than their bodies. Caption: leafcutter ants maintain a complex society.
Science Nation
Episode 143
2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Mosquito on a person's skin. Caption: it would scare them away.
Science Nation
Episode 91
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bees in a hive. They have identifying chips glued to their back. One bee is larger than the rest and has bright colored glue affixing the chip. Caption: (male) The queen is well-known, but doesn’t run the show.
Science Nation
Episode 34
3 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Small mechanical objects with wings. Caption: And so began the creation of the Robobee,
Science Nation
Episode 71
2 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A person in a white suit, hat with mesh face covering, and gloves that come past the forearm. Caption: Lets put the gloves on to finish off the complete outfit.
Science Nation
Episode 192
5 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a dragonfly between their fingers. Caption: (narrator) It's not easy to catch a dragonfly.
Science Nation
Episode 117
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A black caterpillar with orange stripes and hair crawling on a tree branch. Caption: Insects live in different habitats
Science Video Vocab
Episode 100
4 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Yellow insects with black markings on their back in the dirt. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 101
4 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Butterfly lays the egg, egg hatches to larva, larva changes into a pupa, pupa turns into a butterfly. Caption: They are egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 131
4 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Butterfly lays the egg, egg hatches to larva, larva changes into a pupa, pupa turns into a butterfly. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 119
4 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Busy Bees
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 40
3 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Recently Added
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Craft an Insect
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 34
3 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Recently Added
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Fireflies--Nature's Baffling Blinkers
SciShow Kids
Season 2015 / Ep 32
4 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: How a Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly
SciShow Kids
Season 2015 / Ep 25
3 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Recently Added
Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Do Ants Find Food?
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 56
3 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Inspect an Insect
SciShow Kids
Season 2015 / Ep 15
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Like Fruit? Thank a Bee!
SciShow Kids
Season 2016 / Ep 41
3 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Recently Added
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Meet 3 Giant Insects
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 78
4 minutes
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Recently Added
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Super Strong Dragonflies
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 64
3 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
An animation of a mosquito biting a hand. On screen text, full belly, partial blood me. Caption: and she can lay the next generation of blood suckers.
Seasonal Science
Episode 1
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person shaking seeds out of the head of a plant into their hand. Caption: Even the smallest seed contains everything needed to grow
14 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Carpenter Bee
Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke
Episode 4
2 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Polyphemus Moth Cocoon
Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke
Episode 3
1 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Person in a white coat working in a science lab. Caption: Researchers are making genetically modified silkworms.
Superlife
Episode 5
5 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital illustration of a colored map of North America. 4 white lines converge to form an arrow pointing a southern Mexico. Title card reads, "Monarch east fall migration."
Spot on Science
Episode 10
4 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Extreme closeup of a hand holding up a black water bug.
Spot on Science
Episode 4
4 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An ant, Anochetus levaillanti. Caption: some have tons of hair; some have big spines.
7 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2013)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2013
16 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Translucent white termites in the dirt. Caption: Termites are social insects,
45 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
We look down at the edge of a tan tent that is secured in the sand.
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Woman smiles up at us from beneath a bucket hat as she sits with her legs wrapped together in white fabric.
4 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Cartoon of an ant. Caption: The ant had never heard such joyful noise.
6 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Partially dissected body of an ant. Crop, ileum, rectum, mid gut, venom gland. Caption: Alongside that is where the venom gland sits.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 31
6 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Giant walking stick pinned to a board for display. Caption: This one's from Malaysia.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 10
5 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of the bottom side of a winged insect's body. Caption: All insects are roughly made up of the same sections --
The Brain Scoop
Episode 21
7 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a small insect. Inset of a picture of the insect. Caption: Necrophila Americana
The Brain Scoop
Episode 13
9 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a grasshopper. Melanoplus Differentialis. Caption: And this is a differential grasshopper,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 14
11 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Close up of insects pinned to a board. They have green stripes down their backs. Caption: This is the largest collection at the museum.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 40
6 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of the front half of an ant. Camponotus nigriceps. Caption: They bore through wood, but don't eat it.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 54
7 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of a small beetle crawling on the edge of a leaf underwater. Caption: (Crystal) Riffle beetles live underwater
The Brain Scoop
Episode 39
6 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Four men wear black suits, gold paper crowns, and bug eyeglasses as they sing together. Text reads, "The Fly Guys Song."
1 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
People using laser pointers to mock-swordfight. Spanish captions.
The House Of Science (Spanish)
Episode 3
23 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
On a green leaf sits an oval-shaped bug with shiny black wings with a thick white stripe in the middle, a golden yellow head with a black circle in the middle, and thick black antennae.
The Insect Orders
Episode 1
6 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two women look at us, standing against a forested backdrop surrounded by sunny green plants.
The Insect Orders
Episode 7
9 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two women sit across from each other and talk at a picnic table in a forest area with sun-dappled trees and plants.
The Insect Orders
Episode 2
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two women wearing jeans and black jackets squat down on the ground, searching for something amidst rocks and stones, grasses, and other plants.
The Insect Orders
Episode 3
4 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman looks at us as she speaks, crouched down outside next to a green bucket full of vegetable and other food scraps.
The Insect Orders
Episode 6
7 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
View from the inside of a makeshift white-fabric tent, under which two women are sitting on the ground.
The Insect Orders
Episode 10
5 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Mayflies at different stages of development cling to a white surface, resembling flecks of soil and other organic matter.
The Insect Orders
Episode 11
4 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Brown cicada blending into the bark of a thin tree trunk.
The Insect Orders
Episode 13
9 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Brown leaf-cutter ant crawling up over the top edge of a green leaf.
The Insect Orders
Episode 14
7 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two women, one blonde-haired and the other brown-haired, stand in front of a tree in a forest.
The Insect Orders
Episode 15
6 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two moths, one gray and the other speckled white-and-black, snack on a plate of cut-up honeydew, starfruit, and melons, which are also covered in small fruit flies.
The Insect Orders
Episode 20
9 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a green praying mantis devouring a cricket from the middle of a yellow flower, whose petals surround them.
The Insect Orders
Episode 19
5 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Brown-haired woman wearing a black jacket speaks to us while standing in a park near recreational pull-up bars.
The Insect Orders
Episode 16
5 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a brown-and-white segmented insect crawling on human skin. Caption reads: "Lacewing larva biting Kristie's finger."
The Insect Orders
Episode 8
6 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a thick-bodied dragonfly perched on the finger of the show host.
The Insect Orders
Episode 21
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Brown and tan grasshopper with yellow antennae perches on top of a rough red rock.
The Insect Orders
Episode 12
6 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two women sit on a park bench in front of a mulched area with trees. The blonde-haired woman speaks to us while the brown-haired one looks at her and listens.
The Insect Orders
Episode 4
5 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows a black-and-white line drawing of a louse, whose hairy body has an elongated abdomen, six legs resembling crab claws emerging from a short thorax, and a pointed head with antennae.
The Insect Orders
Episode 17
9 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a clump of white fur with a black flea right in the middle.
The Insect Orders
Episode 9
8 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows a gray-toned drawing of a silverfish, with a long segmented body, six short legs, two long antennae on its head, and three long bristles forming a tail. A blue star-shaped icon in the corner says, "cellulase."
The Insect Orders
Episode 5
3 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows a black-and-white line drawing of the beginning of a caddisfly's life cycle, with an arrow pointing from a rounded speckled clump to a pupa emerging from a case.
The Insect Orders
Episode 18
7 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon character swinging a net while surrounded by butterflies. Caption: Oh! I can't see! Get your hands off! Aah!
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 205
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Magic school bus in miniature size in a pack of ants on the ground. Caption: (Ralphie) Giant potato chip being foraged dead ahead!
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 112
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Cartoon characters with faces and the bodies of bees. Caption: They thought we were bees from their hive
The Magic School Bus
Season 3 / Ep 301
25 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Children outside, near the Outsiders Club shed, working at a table with cut plastic bottles and other materials.
The Outsiders Club
Season 1 / Ep 11
21 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Close-up of a skillet toasting several small round sandwiches with a hand and a spatula flipping one.
The Outsiders Club (Spanish)
Season 1 / Ep 11
21 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Photo of bees near an artificial beehive.
6 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A beekeeper and a scientist fully geared in protective suits move toward a bee rearing station.
The Queen's Garden
Episode
2 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Color illustration of a green caterpillar standing on a rock and glancing upwards at an angle. Tall blades of grass in the background.
8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Color illustration of a green caterpillar standing on a rock and glancing upwards at an angle. Tall blades of grass in the background.
8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Six bees. Caption: Is it possible that the animals communicate amongst themselves?
7 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
A person looking up at a pair of primates in the trees. Caption: That's why scientists are interested in studying them.
14 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 9
Illustration of a red, yellow, black and white butterfly. Caption: (music) Butterfly wings head for the sky
5 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Bee gathering nectar from a flower. Spanish captions.
10 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
A bee gathering nectar from a flower. Caption: A honeybee is an insect.
Everyday Science for Preschoolers
Episode 9
1 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: K - 4
Still image from: What's Wild: Carrion Beetle
What's Wild
Episode 1
5 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A black and yellow butterfly with orange spots feeding from a light orange flower. Caption: a caterpillar turning into a butterfly --
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 308
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A tadpole swimming in murky water. Caption: Their lifelong competitors take weeks to transform into frogs.
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 138
2 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of ants swarming over a beetle. Caption: And they also kill each other in battles over turf.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 325
3 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Ants crawling on the ground. Caption: (Greene) One thing we're learning more and more about ant colonies
Wild Chronicles
Season 4 / Ep 401
5 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of a black and yellow insect with stripes on the thorax. Caption: finds a European honeybee colony and marks its location
Wild Chronicles
Season 1 / Ep 102
5 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Rocky New Zealand beach sits below rugged mountains under a cloudy sky.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Season 4 / Ep 4
22 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon of an ant carrying a large piece of food.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of A bee flying in a house.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a butterfly flying in flowers.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a caterpillar on a grape vine.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a flying cicada.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a dragon fly flying over a pond.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a fly landing on a plate of leftover food.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a grasshopper in dry grass.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a ladybug flying among plants.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Cartoon of a flying mosquito.
Zoobabu
Episode
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
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