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Large Blue butterfly caterpiller living in an ant nest. |
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Orchard Spider parasitised by a wasp grub. |
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David does a piece to camera with the ferocious Matabele ants. Cameraman Martin Dohrn operates his “Frankencam” – a specially constructed piece of kit that allowed him to film ants and follow them as they march in search of food. |
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Filming the Blue butterfly story in Hungary.The sequence was filmed in Poland, Hungary and England over a period of 9 months. This beautiful meadow in Hungary was chosen as the location to introduce the story. |
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The team in the damp Jura mountains of Switzerland. Three days of rain prevented us from filming with wood ants. The weather improved a couple of weeks later and we returned to Switzerland to film the sequence in glorious sunshine. |
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Me with a wood ants’ nest. This nest forms part of a supercolony that could well be the largest in the world. |
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© copyright 2008 stephen dunleavy. designed by eberlin
