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1. Program title: The Art of Seduction
2. Production team: Executive producer: Yoon Mi-hyun Director and camera director: Lim Wan-ho (Production Studio: DMZ Wild)
A history of evolution to procreate and leave behind stronger offspring! Interesting methods used in the art of seduction to find a mate!
The rare footages of insects are shot with the Red One Camera for spectacular visuals! Let’s see Camouflaging European oil beetle larva and Ordgarius sexspinosus using pheromone for hunting.
Pheromone - Mating ritual of geometer moths
A female geometer moths secretes pheromone
Geometer moths mate in the winter when snow falls. Female geometer moths with no wings give off a pheromone to lure a male moth.
At a certain point, the female secrete a pheromone that is carried through the air and in the end a male comes to smell it! Now the mate begins!
Geometer moths mating
Deadly seduction -Ordgarius sexspinosus hunts with a pheromone
Ordgarius sexspinosus emits a pheromone
The spider that emits a pheromone that smells similar to the one secreted by the geometer moth!
It's the Ordgarius sexspinosus !
By mimicking its favorite prey, a moth, it acts as if it is a female moth to attract a male moth to eat. Check how
clever it is !
A ball of pheromone created by Ordgarius sexspinosus
A male moth raises its antenna as it responds to the pheromone
The Art of Seduction - Gifts
Male insects preparing a gift for picky females in the same way as humans do! .
Many types of insects in the Panorpidae family use different gifts to entice a female to mate. It could be its own secretion or something else wrapped in its secretion.
Scorpionfly's "mating" gift
This male scorpionfly will secrete a pheromone to attract a female after finding food that is usually liquids in fruits or dead animals
When the female comes, the male shares the food with it and immediately mating takes place.
Food serves as a vital element for not only its own survival but also its successful mating!
Food in front of the female.
The male's tail is curled upwards.
The Art of Seduction - Survival
Seduction itself is useful not only for mating but also for survival. Don’t think that seduction occurs only in animals’ world! Plants also attract insects to scatter their seeds. A flower's scent and bright colors are means to attract creatures to it. Meanwhile the European oil beetle larva camouflages itself as a flower pistil to seduce bees.
The seduction and strategies of the European oil beetle
Wonder how clever the European oil beetle belonging to the Meloidae family is for its survival? Females lay their eggs in a hole and leave. The eggs hatch in six weeks and then the larva climbs onto a flower!Right there on the flower, they looking like flower pistils wait for bees that take them to a safer place full with food.
European oil beetle larva posing as flower pistil
The documentary shows thousands of European oil beetle larvae disguised as flower pistils attach themselves to bumblebees. Successfully entering the bee’s nest, the European oil beetles feed on the bee's honey. Even a single European oil beetle larva can destroy an entire bumblebee nest.
European oil beetle larvae attached to bee
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Synopsis