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[theme music plays]
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[Narrator] Ah, midsummer in
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the Great Smoky Mountains,
Tennessee.
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It's insect mating season,
and love is in the air.
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Well, pheromones anyway.
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But a bug's life is short.
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The chance to mate is fleeting,
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especially for this
enchanting little
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woodland creature.
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Strange, mysterious,
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and fluffy.
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Meet the forest's
youngest luna moth.
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Fresh from his cocoon, there's
a whole new world to explore.
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But, like most young adults,
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there is only one
thing on his mind.
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Find a mate and pass on
his adorable little genes.
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Not easy, when you're a
little on the clumsy side.
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[comedic whistling]
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[crashing]
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Your wings haven't opened yet.
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Oh, and you only
have a week to live.
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For most forest bugs,
finding a partner is
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a race against the clock.
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This is a tale of tiny romantics
facing down huge odds,
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in a deep dark wood,
full of obstacles and danger.
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The course of true love
never did run smooth.
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As the sun sets over the
forest, the search begins.
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But finding a mate in a
darkening world takes a
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very special set of skills.
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This little love bug is
desperate to be noticed.
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After spending a whole year
as a grub, hidden underground,
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who wouldn't be?
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Now he's an adult, he only has
a few short weeks to pair up.
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He's handsome, sure.
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But just the size of a pumpkin
seed, he's easy to miss.
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Until he turns on the charm.
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He's a firefly, one of
thousands of males
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flashing their butts off.
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Mixing chemicals in his tail
sparks that firefly magic.
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One of the most
energy-efficient light sources
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on the planet.
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More than 30 species
of firefly live here
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in the Smoky Mountains,
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each with their own
secret language of flashes.
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Some blink slow and steady,
others twinkle rapidly.
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And our guy's signature move?
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Dip down low, then rise
with a glorious glow.
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Over at the tree line, he's
caught someone's attention.
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A gorgeous female firefly,
flashing at him?
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Yeah, she's flirting
with him, shamelessly.
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And oh boy, is
he flirting back.
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Using his best pick-up
lines to seal the deal.
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His whole life has been
leading him to a lady
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just like her.
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[♪ horror music]
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Yep, she's eating him.
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'Cause this isn't
his story, it's hers.
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Twice his size,
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she's a totally different
species of firefly.
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A man-eater,
mimicking his language.
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Luring love-sick males to
their death is her specialty.
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It's why she's known as the
"femme fatale" of the forest.
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Already pregnant,
she's eating for 50.
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And the more victims
she devours tonight,
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the stronger her babies will be.
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If you're a male, and
your butt lights up,
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she's coming for you!
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If only everyone can
move through the forest
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this gracefully.
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Still stuck in the undergrowth,
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the little luna moth is
flightless and vulnerable.
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Best not draw any attention.
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[creaking]
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[crashing]
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In these woods,
monsters are everywhere.
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A hungry mouse
right on his tail.
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Climb, just keep climbing,
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climb like your
life depends on it,
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because it does.
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But until his wings open,
he's a sitting bug.
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[rustling]
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Huh?
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[boom]
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Who?
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What's that?
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Look, if you were the size
of a ping pong ball,
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you'd be scared too.
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'Sup, Bambi?
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Danger may have passed,
but his heart beats faster.
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It's the final part of
his transformation,
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pumping fluid into his wings.
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He's got to wait for them
to harden before he can fly.
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Then, somehow,
he must find a mate
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through miles of darkness.
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By night, the dense, humid
forest becomes the perfect
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breeding ground for more
than 10,000 species of insect.
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Many spend years growing
in larval form,
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but have only weeks,
or even days, as adults.
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This way, parents and children
don't have to fight over food.
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But it doesn't leave
much time to find love.
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So bugs have come up with
all kinds of ways to be
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as attractive as possible.
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Some are singers...
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[chirping]
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some are dancers,
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and some are fighters.
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Like the mighty stag beetle.
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His game plan?
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Find a food source
females love,
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like this oozing oak tree
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with a sugary
open wound above.
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Then prove himself by defending
it against other males.
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He spent his first two years
of life as a defenseless grub,
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but just look at him now.
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A knight in shining armor,
with just a few weeks of
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adult life to fight for a queen.
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Up ahead, his first opponent.
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Time to show the
forest what he's made of.
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Our hero quickly takes
the higher ground,
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the perfect position to...
oh, oh dear.
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Oh no.
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Lucky no females were
around to see that.
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Anyway, one small
defeat won't hold
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this headstrong beetle back.
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Time to go pick another fight.
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[owl hooting]
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[Narrator] The luna moth's
quest for love hasn't even
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taken off yet.
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He's still waiting for
his wings to harden.
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It happens to all
moths, trust me.
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In his previous life as a
caterpillar, he munched leaves
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non-stop for six weeks,
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building up energy for
his adult adventures.
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But now he's all grown up.
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He doesn't even have a mouth.
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No way to top up
his fuel reserves.
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With every move he
wastes more energy.
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[sniffing]
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The hungry mouse is back.
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And those wings
still ain't ready.
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[♪ tense music]
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[♪ horror music]
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Try as he might, little legs
are no match for sharp claws.
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But his wings are
covered in thousands of
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tiny slippery scales.
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Even the mightiest
mouse can't get a grip.
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Evolution won
this battle for him.
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He's a lover not a fighter.
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Well, that's the plan anyway.
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[squeaking]
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Somewhere out there a
female is releasing a mere
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billionth of a gram
of pheromone,
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and it smells great.
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His ultra-sensitive antennae
detect her alluring scent
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from far across the forest.
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A breadcrumb trail leading
him on his very first flight.
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Ah, the moonlight.
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The wind flying through
the hair on your thorax.
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And the perfect
tree for a rest.
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He's gonna need it.
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His fuel reserves
are running low,
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and he's still a long way
from finding his female.
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In the bug dating game,
putting yourself out there
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can be a risky strategy.
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Good times for insects means
good times for predators, too.
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But one flavor of bug here
is strictly off the menu.
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Our old friends,
the fireflies.
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Toxins in their blood make
them taste disgusting
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to most predators.
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[ribbit]
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But our femme fatale
firefly isn't most predators.
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She needs these
protective toxins
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to pass on to her babies.
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She can't make them herself,
so she has to steal them.
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The more firefly she devours,
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the better protected
her babies will be.
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Tonight, her man-eating
mission continues
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deeper in the forest.
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The stag beetle has
picked himself up
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after losing his first fight,
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determined to find another
feeding ground to fight over.
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And he might just
have hit the jackpot.
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His antennae have led
him to an old tree stump.
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To stag beetles,
this is heaven.
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It's damp,
rotting and it stinks.
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So, naturally, anyone who's
anyone in bug society is here,
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and there's a very good
reason it's so crowded.
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Giddy-up cowbug.
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[laughs].
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Sorry.
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Before it died, this oak spent
100 summers catching rays of
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sun and turning
them into sugars.
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Now, fungi break the wood down
and turn the stump into
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mushy bug baby food.
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Beetle larvae spend years
eating the sugary pulp,
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so it's the perfect place for
a female stag to lay her eggs.
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[owl hooting]
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And what do you know?
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Up above, a female is waiting
for a handsome male,
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and she's not so bad herself.
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The unmistakable look of love,
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and the sound of trouble.
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Another male stag standing
between him and his queen.
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With just a few weeks
left to live,
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he can't afford to
keep losing fights.
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Only winners get the girl.
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I mean it's old fashioned,
but, like, who am I to judge?
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Midnight is approaching and
the Smoky Mountains seem
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so peaceful from above.
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But below the canopy,
it's love and death.
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Our femme fatale firefly needs
more kills before sunrise.
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More protective toxins
for her unborn babies.
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In the dead of night,
she's discovered new prey.
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Smoky Mountain
synchronous fireflies.
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Thousands of males flash
in unison and, in the brief
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moments of darkness, they
wait for females to reply.
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How this species coordinates
is still a mystery,
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especially to our femme fatale.
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She can't quite
mimic their language,
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so these males aren't
falling into her trap.
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But they are falling
into someone else's.
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An Orb-weaver spider,
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with a web full of
careless male fireflies.
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All that food in one place,
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surely she wouldn't
steal a meal from
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another firefly killer?
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But she's one fearless mama,
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the meanest, baddest,
biggest bug in the forest.
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Well, biggest
firefly at least.
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Head first into
a spider's web.
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The spider is
only inches above.
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Just don't
trigger the tripwires.
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[♪ anticipatory music]
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[string plucked]
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I said not to
trigger the tripwire!
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[♪ intense music]
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Tied up in spider silk,
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a bug's worst nightmare.
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Her life, and her babies' lives,
hanging in the balance.
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But twice the size of
the trapped males,
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she's still got a
fighting chance.
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[♪ intense dramatic music]
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[♪ intense dramatic music]
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Escaped, and with a
free bug burrito.
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This supermom-to-be
will do anything
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for the sake of her bloodline.
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And the stag beetle is
ready to go to war over his.
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Two horny males,
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one picky female.
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Our guy's the one on
the left, by the way.
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This may be his last
chance to win a mate.
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[horns clacking]
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Stag beetle fights can
last almost a minute.
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In a bug's life,
that's, like, forever.
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00:23:15,477 --> 00:23:18,146
He's trapped in a headlock.
256
00:23:23,318 --> 00:23:25,153
But he escapes,
257
00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:29,074
and lifts his challenger
in a vice-grip of his own.
258
00:23:31,993 --> 00:23:36,248
Bench pressing his own
bodyweight with his mouth,
259
00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:42,421
giving him the edge
to throw him off.
260
00:23:48,385 --> 00:23:50,637
[crashing]
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00:23:52,472 --> 00:23:55,100
How unfortunate.
262
00:23:57,352 --> 00:24:02,315
[♪ victorious herald]
263
00:24:03,650 --> 00:24:07,112
Looks like date
night is back on.
264
00:24:11,825 --> 00:24:15,620
It's love at first
pheromone exchange.
265
00:24:20,208 --> 00:24:23,545
And it's not just
the stag beetle.
266
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,175
On midsummer nights like this,
the forest is crawling with
267
00:24:28,258 --> 00:24:33,305
little love bugs of every
shape, size and pronoun.
268
00:24:35,223 --> 00:24:39,644
Slugs are hermaphrodites, so
they can fertilize themselves.
269
00:24:40,395 --> 00:24:41,980
But most of us can agree
270
00:24:42,063 --> 00:24:45,317
mating is a lot more
fun with a partner.
271
00:24:47,777 --> 00:24:50,530
Just ask the weevils.
272
00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:56,328
Through sheer determination,
273
00:24:56,411 --> 00:24:59,664
the stag beetle
has won his queen.
274
00:25:03,335 --> 00:25:05,921
And all across the forest,
275
00:25:06,004 --> 00:25:10,509
bugs are making the most
out of their brief affairs.
276
00:25:15,889 --> 00:25:18,225
In the dying hours
of the night,
277
00:25:18,308 --> 00:25:21,603
the long reproductive
organs of slugs
278
00:25:21,686 --> 00:25:25,941
coiling around each other
look strangely beautiful.
279
00:25:30,445 --> 00:25:34,324
Tonight, romance
is in the air.
280
00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:38,745
Until you get dumped.
281
00:25:41,456 --> 00:25:45,418
It seems like everyone in
the forest is getting lucky,
282
00:25:46,586 --> 00:25:49,965
apart from the luna moth.
283
00:25:58,765 --> 00:26:02,185
He's so tired from
flying all night,
284
00:26:02,269 --> 00:26:06,648
he's letting the other
bugs walk all over him.
285
00:26:06,731 --> 00:26:09,442
Oh, I hate it
when that happens!
286
00:26:12,487 --> 00:26:15,365
He's running on empty.
287
00:26:18,702 --> 00:26:23,373
His body is battered, but
his heart is beating strong.
288
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:29,713
It's racing, because his
antennae tell him
289
00:26:29,796 --> 00:26:32,340
his female is close.
290
00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:36,303
And he's buzzing
with excitement.
291
00:26:37,262 --> 00:26:40,223
Well, sort of.
292
00:26:41,891 --> 00:26:45,687
Shivering warms up
his wing muscles,
293
00:26:49,232 --> 00:26:53,361
just enough energy to
rev up one last time.
294
00:26:53,862 --> 00:26:57,866
Take to the air
and go find her!
295
00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:05,540
[♪ dramatic music]
296
00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:10,712
Before something
else finds him.
297
00:27:16,676 --> 00:27:20,513
A big brown bat can
see in the dark,
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00:27:27,270 --> 00:27:29,230
[clicking]
299
00:27:29,314 --> 00:27:31,316
using sonar to
pinpoint its prey.
300
00:27:31,399 --> 00:27:34,778
[clicking]
301
00:27:35,737 --> 00:27:40,283
The moth has no clue
that death is on his tail.
302
00:27:45,705 --> 00:27:51,836
[♪ intense dramatic music]
303
00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:05,433
But this was no lucky escape.
304
00:28:05,517 --> 00:28:09,646
It's the moth's
tail that saved him.
305
00:28:10,855 --> 00:28:14,317
Its swirling shape
scrambles the bat's sonar.
306
00:28:17,070 --> 00:28:21,700
With wings like these,
who cares if you're clumsy?
307
00:28:25,912 --> 00:28:30,667
Traveling miles through the
forest has taken its toll.
308
00:28:31,918 --> 00:28:33,962
[crashing]
309
00:28:34,045 --> 00:28:37,090
He's totally out of fuel,
310
00:28:37,966 --> 00:28:42,470
but this is the best crash
landing he could have hoped for.
311
00:28:44,681 --> 00:28:48,852
The pheromone trail
has led him to a female.
312
00:28:54,315 --> 00:28:58,361
With his very last scrap of
energy, he climbs to her.
313
00:29:00,530 --> 00:29:05,076
Once they've mated, she'll
carry all 400 of their eggs.
314
00:29:05,869 --> 00:29:09,664
The tiny woodland
romantics of the future.
315
00:29:14,210 --> 00:29:17,338
[birds chirping]
316
00:29:17,422 --> 00:29:20,008
Bugs have the most
extraordinary ways of
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00:29:20,091 --> 00:29:23,928
passing on their small,
but mighty, genes.
318
00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:30,894
The firefly's violent
rampage has paid off.
319
00:29:32,228 --> 00:29:34,689
With only days left to live,
320
00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:37,776
she's laying her
tiny toxic eggs,
321
00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:43,531
ensuring her lethal
lineage will continue.
322
00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:53,833
As for the luna moth,
his job is done, too.
323
00:29:54,417 --> 00:29:57,212
Against all odds.
324
00:29:57,921 --> 00:30:01,758
Only 1% of his
species ever get to mate.
325
00:30:03,343 --> 00:30:08,223
So, he made the most
of his short life.
326
00:30:12,602 --> 00:30:19,192
[♪ dramatic music]
327
00:30:19,275 --> 00:30:25,114
Every scrape, battle and
crash landing was worth it.
328
00:30:31,871 --> 00:30:35,124
His adorable legacy
will live on,
329
00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:39,504
right across the forest.
330
00:30:45,218 --> 00:30:47,512
[music plays through credits]
331
00:31:12,078 --> 00:31:13,246
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