Season
- Season 0 1984-09-24
- Season 1 1983-10-30
- Season 2 1984-05-06
- Season 3 1984-11-04
- Season 4 1985-09-15
- Season 5 1986-10-05
- Season 6 1987-09-20
- Season 7 1988-09-18
- Season 8 1989-10-01
- Season 9 1991-01-06
- Season 10 1991-11-24
- Season 11 1993-01-03
- Season 12 1994-02-20
- Season 13 1994-11-27
- Season 14 1996-01-14
- Season 15 1996-10-06
- Season 16 1997-10-19
- Season 17 1998-10-11
- Season 18 1999-10-03
- Season 19 2000-10-08
- Season 20 2001-10-07
- Season 21 2002-10-13
- Season 22 2003-10-12
- Season 23 2004-10-14
- Season 24 2005-10-19
- Season 25 2006-10-18
- Season 26 2007-04-04
- Season 27 2008-01-04
- Season 28 2008-11-11
- Season 29 2009-10-28
- Season 30 2010-07-08
- Season 31 2011-08-01
- Season 32 2012-07-19
- Season 33 2013-05-17
- Season 34 2014-04-11
- Season 35 2015-02-24
- Season 36 2016-04-14
- Season 37 2017-03-20
- Season 38 2018-03-31
- Season 39 2019-04-07
Season 39 Episode
- Season 26 Toki's Tale
- Season 26 Battle to Save the Tiger
- Season 26 Moose on the Loose
- Season 26 Buddha, Bees and the Giant Hornet Queen
- Season 26 Hawaii - Message in the Waves
- Season 26 Invasion of the Crocodiles
- Season 26 The Bloodhound and the Beardie
- Season 26 Saving Our Seabirds
- Season 26 Desert Lions
- Season 26 Gabon - Forests of the Future
- Season 26 Wye - Voices from the Valley
Natural World - Season 26 Episode 4 Buddha, Bees and the Giant Hornet Queen
7.00 60 minutes The Giant Japanese Hornet is the fiercest looking insect on earth, and one of the deadliest. This film follows the remarkable life of one giant hornet queen, as she emerges from hibernation and starts to build up a colony in an old temple garden. Her army of warriors terrorise the beautiful mountain valley in their constant struggle to find food for their hungry grubs.
In a series of dramatic pitched battles, the giant hornets massacre thousands of bees, but victory isn't always assured - one local honeybee fights back thanks to a remarkable defensive strategy, and suddenly it is the hornets that are dying. A beekeeper monk bears witness to the rising power of the giant hornet colony, and despite the hornet's attacks on his own bees, he reveals a deep respect for these incredible predators.
