''Insectia'' is a Canadian

nature documentary A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or television documentary, series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures. Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject's nat ...

program that premiered on the

Discovery Channel Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It init ...

on February 4, 1999. The show's host,

Georges Brossard Georges Brossard, (February 11, 1940 – June 26, 2019) was a Canadian entomologist and founder of the Montreal Insectarium. He died on June 26, 2019, at the age of 79. Biography An insect enthusiast from a very early age, Brossard held a career ...

, explains the life of

insect Insects (from Latin ') are Hexapoda, hexapod invertebrates of the class (biology), class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (Insect morphology#Head, head, ...

s by traveling around the world and introducing specimens in their natural habitat. Shot in 1998, it is the first Canadian documentary program to be filmed in high definition resolution. It aired on the now-defunct Discovery HD Theater in high definition after the channel's launch in 2002.

Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Notes

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0217940, Insectia Discovery Channel (Canadian TV channel) original programming Nature educational television series Television series about insects