Anthony Barwell
Director
Extreme Bugs (2025)
Miniseries
Camouflage, deception and deadly precision: insects arrive with surprising survival strategies and thus take their place in the animal world. From bomb-igniting beetles, web-throwing spiders to tricky antlions – worldwide, the insect world has developed amazing abilities to protect itself from attackers and obtain food.
Released Dec. 4, 2025
Episode 44 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.rainforest, tmdb.gigantism, tmdb.arachnids, tmdb.resilience, tmdb.insects, tmdb.venom, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series + 9 more, tmdb.ecosystems, tmdb.predator, tmdb.wilderness, tmdb.intelligence, imdb.tv-mini-series, tmdb.camouflage, tmdb.jungle, tmdb.biodiversity, tmdb.toxin
Production Companies: WildBear Entertainment, ZDF/Arte, K22 Film, ITV Studios Australia
Network: ARTE
S1E1 - The Biggest
Poison, power, stealth — this episode features the wildest prepper insects in nature. Giant Herculean beetles, capable of lifting incredible weights, and stick insects that blend perfectly with their environment, fight for life in the harshest conditions on Earth.
Dec. 4, 2025, midnight
S1E2 - The most evil ones
We are immersed in the world of the most ferocious insects, where poison, ambushes and strange weapons rule the roost. Bullet ants with the most painful bite of insects, predatory antlion larvae that build death traps, and riders that lay eggs in the bodies of other insects. Here survival — is war, and being bad has become the crown of evolution.
Dec. 4, 2025, midnight
ARTE
44 min/ep
88 min
Dec. 4, 2025
Dec. 4, 2025, midnight
Ended
NR
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