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Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects
Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects

Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects

IMDb: 8.1 2006-10-25 France

Short video animations giving a bird's eye view of insects' day to day existence, distorted through a burlesque, yet poetic lens.

Seasons

Episodes

Episode 2
The Wing Case

Saved by the providential fall of a tiny egg, a mother ladybug adopts it. When it hatches, she realises it contains a little caterpillar.

Episode 4
Pea supper

A small spider tries out different techniques to open a can of peas.

Episode 6
Bzzapping

A fly and a spider are watching sports on television. They disagree as to which channel they want to watch. It's duel time for the remote control. Who is going to let go: the spider, the fly... or the TV?

Episode 10
Microzilla

A careless fly escapes from a hungry spider by shutting herself inside a microwave oven. The radiations turn her into a powerful monster fly the size of an orange.

Episode 16
The grasshopper who didn't know how to leap

A grasshopper who's just had babies hurries to teach them the most important lesson of all: how to leap properly. But one of the babies is unable to hop and ends up an outcast.

Episode 29
Catch Me If You Can

A reckless male butterfly is interested in a female butterfly that is sitting on a crossroad sign over the other side of the road. Can he make it over to her in one piece?

Episode 42
Spider from the Depths

Two spiders are hunting the same prey: a fat fly, lying unconscious on the surface of a pool. The booty will go to the spider that can reach the fly before it wakes up, and without getting wet of course.

Episode 49
Rascals!

A group of black ants get their food - a nice nut - stolen by a band of red ants. But the leader of the black ants isn't prepared to give up the fight.

Episode 50
The Grocery store incident

A mischievous ladybird lures a bunch of flies into a crazy chase inside a supermarket.

Episode 51
Spider driver

A spider is trying out a miniature red toy car when a bus full of flies hits it. The flies are clearly looking for trouble. A ladybug comes to save the day, happy to give a lesson to these troublemakers.

Episode 55
The monster of the haunted swamp

In a gloomy swamp, the insects are terrified by a frightening shape which produces strange sounds.

Episode 78
Away all boarders!

Inside a cosy countryside cottage in midwinter, two rival groups of ants fight over a handful of olives.

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