NATURE reveals the importance of an unlikely partnership between a regal tree and a tiny wasp in THE QUEEN OF TREES.
It may be one of nature's oddest couples: a tiny wasp that can barely be seen, and a giant fig tree, the sycomore, which shelters a remarkable menagerie of wildlife among its limbs. The wasp and the fig depend on each other for survival. Without the wasp, the tree could not pollinate its flowers and produce seeds. Without the fig, the wasp would have nowhere to lay its eggs.
THE QUEEN OF TREES shows this delicate dance of survival in exquisite detail, including spectacular close-ups of the wasp's remarkable life inside a ripening fig. To capture such incredible images, filmmakers Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble spent two years camped out near a giant sycomore fig in Kenya's outback, documenting the tree's pivotal role as a source of food and shelter for everything from gray hornbills, Africa's largest bird, to swarms of invading insects searching for food. In a surprising turn, some insects come to the tree's aid -- sparking a battle you won't want to miss.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iq_h7_lvRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZL5woGzrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qs10NeimI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3Asn04Tvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huxTZ5mbem8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPcgmnHXUUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8s1955r78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqMP6X2ZG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-_1p9P6hc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBh_EoUftg
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Full Version: The Queen Of Trees
NATURE reveals the importance of an unlikely partnership between a regal tree and a tiny wasp in THE QUEEN OF TREES.
It may be one of nature's oddest couples: a tiny wasp that can barely be seen, and a giant fig tree, the sycomore, which shelters a remarkable menagerie of wildlife among its limbs. The wasp and the fig depend on each other for survival. Without the wasp, the tree could not pollinate its flowers and produce seeds. Without the fig, the wasp would have nowhere to lay its eggs.
THE QUEEN OF TREES shows this delicate dance of survival in exquisite detail, including spectacular close-ups of the wasp's remarkable life inside a ripening fig. To capture such incredible images, filmmakers Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble spent two years camped out near a giant sycomore fig in Kenya's outback, documenting the tree's pivotal role as a source of food and shelter for everything from gray hornbills, Africa's largest bird, to swarms of invading insects searching for food. In a surprising turn, some insects come to the tree's aid -- sparking a battle you won't want to miss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iq_h7_lvRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZL5woGzrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qs10NeimI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3Asn04Tvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huxTZ5mbem8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPcgmnHXUUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8s1955r78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqMP6X2ZG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-_1p9P6hc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBh_EoUftg
It may be one of nature's oddest couples: a tiny wasp that can barely be seen, and a giant fig tree, the sycomore, which shelters a remarkable menagerie of wildlife among its limbs. The wasp and the fig depend on each other for survival. Without the wasp, the tree could not pollinate its flowers and produce seeds. Without the fig, the wasp would have nowhere to lay its eggs.
THE QUEEN OF TREES shows this delicate dance of survival in exquisite detail, including spectacular close-ups of the wasp's remarkable life inside a ripening fig. To capture such incredible images, filmmakers Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble spent two years camped out near a giant sycomore fig in Kenya's outback, documenting the tree's pivotal role as a source of food and shelter for everything from gray hornbills, Africa's largest bird, to swarms of invading insects searching for food. In a surprising turn, some insects come to the tree's aid -- sparking a battle you won't want to miss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iq_h7_lvRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZL5woGzrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qs10NeimI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3Asn04Tvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huxTZ5mbem8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPcgmnHXUUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8s1955r78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqMP6X2ZG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-_1p9P6hc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBh_EoUftg
The evolution of a fig tree in Africa and its only pollinator, -the fig wasp. This film takes us through a journey of intertwining relationships. It shows how the fig (queen) tree is life sustaining for an entire range of species, -from plants, to insects, to other animals, and even mammals. These other species are in-turn life-sustaining to the fig tree itself. It could not survive without the interaction of all these different creatures and the various functions they perform. This is one of the single greatest documented (on video) examples of the wonders of our natural world; the intricacies involved for survival and ensuring the perpetual existence of species. It shows us how fragile the balance is between survival and extinction.
1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iq_h7_lvRA
2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZL5woGzrI
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qs10NeimI
4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3Asn04Tvg
5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huxTZ5mbem8
6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPcgmnHXUUg
7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8s1955r78
8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqMP6X2ZG8
9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-_1p9P6hc
10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBh_EoUftg
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