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Deep Look
4 of the Deadliest Tiny Hunters We've Ever Filmed
Season 11
Episode 18
Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey.
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4:58
A “bee fly” is a freeloader that takes advantage of a bindweed turret bee’s hard work.

4:05
The scaled wormsnail cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using mucus!

4:04
Step right up to see tiny springtails spin through the air with the greatest of ease!

3:44
Geckos navigate nearly any surface with an electron dance at the atomic scale.

4:31
The snake's forked tongue helps it smell in stereo.

3:22
Bird’s nest fungi look just like a tiny bird's nest. But those little eggs have no yolks.

3:36
How are frogs so amazing at catching bugs? It’s their supersoft tongue and special spit.

4:00
Mussels create byssal threads to attach themselves to rocks and each other.

4:10
Earthworms cozy up with a mate inside tubes of slime to make cocoons full of baby worms.

3:52
What keeps the boneless, jawless hagfish thriving after more than 300 million years? SLIME

5:04
Researchers use invisible lasers, ghastly wasps and more trickery to protect orange groves

4:20
As they gorge, oblique streaktail hoverflies help keep orange trees safe from disease.