
Extreme Bugs
2025•44m•7.0/10
Documentary
Ratings
🎬TMDb
7.0/10(1)
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.
Production
WildBear Entertainment, ZDF/Arte, ITV Studios Australia, K22 Film
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
December 4, 2025
Last Aired
December 4, 2025
Networks
ARTE
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season

E1
The Biggest
Air date: 2025-12-04
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.

E2
The most evil ones
Air date: 2025-12-04
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.











