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Please note: this Web piece contains multimedia presentations that require the free Shockwave Flash plug-in. To view the video clips, you must have the free QuickTime 3. This site looks best when viewed using Netscape 3.0 or above, or Internet Explorer 3.0 or above, for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and the Macintosh. If you have an earlier version or another browser, pages may not be presented exactly as designed.Please note: This expanded Web piece contains special multimedia presentations with music and animation, "Bee Anatomy" and "Enter the Hive," meant for users with high-speed connections (56K modem and higher), using Netscape 4.0 and above and Internet Explorer 4.0 and above. Please also note that a recently discovered quirk in Internet Explorer 4.5 for the Macintosh does not allow its users to view these presentations at this time. This special multimedia Web companion to the three-week NATURE miniseries takes you into the bizarre, fascinating world of insects, with amazing graphics, sound and animation, enhanced video, and activities for kids. Read the articles to learn more about how insects reproduce, live together in society, migrate, and battle for survival. Check out our animated musical multimedia presentations on monarch butterflies, mayflies, and bee anatomy and behavior. View video clips from the programs, including an enhanced streaming video clip for higher-speed visitors. Solve our Insect Scramble puzzles -- we've created one for each section. Check out our list of insect resources in print and on the Web. And in a fun activity for kids, print out our cricket and butterfly mask patterns, then follow the directions to make masks you can really wear! Each of ALIEN EMPIRE's three programs is divided into two parts. For each program, you will find an article and at least one multimedia segment. Show 1, "Hardware & Replicators," takes a close look at insect design and examines their reproductive strategies. Show 2, "Battlezone & Metropolis" focuses on the constant war that insects wage for food and the complex habitats and social relationships they create. And Show 3, "Voyagers & War of the Worlds," charts insect migration and explores the ways insects and humans wage war -- and occasionally cooperate. |
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Replicators Article: Mayflies Insect Scramble Puzzle Presentation: Mayfly Video Clip: Vapourer Moth |
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Metropolis Article: Termites Insect Scramble Puzzle Presentation: Enter the Hive |
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