PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dragonflies in Kentucky
This video segment from Kentucky Life explains the differences between dragonflies and damselflies and explores their habitats. [3:32]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Summer
See the many birds that spend their summer in the Arctic in this video segment from Nature. [2:52]
PBS
Pbs: Japan's Secret Garden, Animal Transformations
Japan's Secret Garden presents 5 video clips of different animal transformations & metamorphoses.
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Read Good Books!: Creating Insects
KIDS Clubhouse Adventures kids read and discover more about insects. In this feature, kids create their own insects based on the knowledge they gathered in entomology books using craft supplies to represent body parts and other defining...
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Theme: What Are Insects?
Abby Brown, KIDS Clubhouse Adventures co-host, loves to help kids have fun while learning! In this segment, Abby teaches kids how to identify an insect. You'll also learn how some insects are very helpful to humans! [2:15]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hungry Beasts
Learn about the wildebeest and locusts on the move in this video segment from Nature. [2:47]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Planetary Moves
This video segment from Nature offers an introduction to four species' migratory patterns. [2:05]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Secret to the Leap? Not the Flea's Knees
Fleas are admirable jumpers -- a talent that humans have recognized for thousands of years, according to engineer Greg Sutton. Yet, until this week, exactly how fleas propel themselves wasn't understood. Sutton and Malcolm Burrows, of...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Bedbugs
They come out at night to hunt for blood. Join a discussion about the science and psychology of bedbugs.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Grasshopper Invasion
An invasion of grasshoppers was anticipated in 2010 due to the high numbers of adult grasshoppers in the previous year. The potential impact of this in the Plains and Western states is discussed. Aired Apr. 2, 2010 [8:15]
Other
3 D Insects: Virtual Insects and a Spider
Examining insects up close can give us a better perspective of physical characteristics that can sometimes go unnoticed while observing them from a distance. This site provides animations of 17 different insects and spiders, letting...
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 1
Pest story snippets about attack of the picnic crashers, paging Dr. Maggot, and the dirt on pigeons. [2:46]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 2
Learn about a why rats are dirty, why moths love light, and why bed bugs bite. [2:55]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 5
Learn about a variety of interesting pests stories about bedtime snack attacks, bugs that stink, and when wasps attack. [2:56]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 6
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like termites, pill bugs, and ticks! [3:08]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 8
Learn about stupid cockroach tricks, teeny tiny dust mites, and how crickets have music. [3:01]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 9
Learn about a variety of interesting pest stories like mosquito munchies, the truth about earwigs, and holy wings Batman! [2:57]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 10
Watch three snippets about three household pests including: Honey, what's for dinner?, G'dday cousin opossum, and there's always room for dessert!
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 11
Three snippets about pests including four-alarm fire ants, good beetle bad beetle, and step right up to the tiniest show on Earth with fleas! [2:46]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 12
Three snippets about pests including hungry hungry house flies, the ties that bind, and how to pigeon-proof your nest! [3:05]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 13
Three snippets about pests including beetle body basics, how to flea-proof Fido, and the ant that's not really an ant! [3:05]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 15
Three snippets about pests including bee stings 101, keeping cockroaches out, and bird calls! [2:57]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 16
Three snippets about pests including centipedes vs. millipedes, she worked hard for the colony, and powder post beetle blues! [3:10]