The Life and Death of the Pine Processionary

Nov 21, 1967 on BBC TWO at 9:00 PM

Summary

An extraordinary and beautiful film shows the hazardous existence of a caterpillar Thaumetopoea Pityocampa. Sometimes joyful, sometimes pitiful and seemingly innocuous,' the Pine Processionary, as it is more familiarly called, is a wonderful subject... (more) for the French film director Robert Enrico ; but the wake of destruction it leaves behind in its struggle for survival has forced French biologists to declare war on the species.

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