"hands"" as they exit. The show's score was composed and conducted by Bruce Broughton, while much of the queue music was arranged by George Wilkins. The attraction's titular theme song was written by Wilkins and Kevin Rafferty. The queue features parodies or renditions of songs from famous Broadway shows using bug sounds. The cast includes: It's Tough to Be a Bug! It's Tough to Be a Bug! is a 9-minute-long 3D film based on the 1998 Disney·Pixar film ""A Bug's Life"", using theater lighting, 3-D filming techniques, audio-animatronics and various special effects. Flik an ant, from ""A Bug's Life"", hosts"
"A Bug's Life A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by John Lasseter, the film involves a misfit ant, Flik, who is looking for ""tough warriors"" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, only to recruit a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. The film stars the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and also featured Roddy McDowall's final film appearance before his death. The film is inspired by Aesop's fable ""The Ant and the Grasshopper"". Production began"
"nighttime show ""World of Color"" features a segment that includes Heimlich, the caterpillar from the film. From 2002–2018, A Bug's Land was a section of Disney California Adventure that was inspired by the film. A Bug's Life A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by John Lasseter, the film involves a misfit ant, Flik, who is looking for ""tough warriors"" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, only to recruit a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. The film stars the"
"the trade papers that PDI's first project at DreamWorks would be another ant film, to be called ""Antz"". By this time, Pixar's project, then similarly called ""Bugs"", was well known within the animation community. In general, both ""Antz"" and ""A Bug's Life"" center on a young male ant, a drone with oddball tendencies, who struggles to win a princess's hand by saving their society. Lasseter and Jobs believed that the idea was stolen by Katzenberg. Katzenberg had stayed in touch with Lasseter after the acrimonious Disney split, often calling to check up. In October 1995, when Lasseter was overseeing postproduction"
"formed a translucent canopy, as if the insects were living under a stained-glass ceiling. The team also later sought inspiration from ""Microcosmos"" (1996), a French documentary on love and violence in the insect world. The transition from treatment to storyboards took on an extra layer of complexity due to the profusion of storylines. Where ""Toy Story"" focused heavily on Woody and Buzz, with the other toys serving mostly as sidekicks, ""A Bug's Life"" required in-depth storytelling for several major groups of characters. Character design also presented a new challenge, in that the designers had to make ants appear likable. Although"
"acquisition of Pacific Data Images (PDI)—long Pixar's contemporary in computer animation—Lasseter and others at Pixar were dismayed to learn from the trade papers that PDI's first project at DreamWorks would be another ant film, to be called ""Antz"". By this time, Pixar's project was well known within the animation community. Both ""Antz"" and ""A Bug's Life"" center on a young male, a drone with oddball tendencies that struggles to win a princess's hand by saving their society. Whereas ""A Bug's Life"" relied chiefly on visual gags, ""Antz"" was more verbal and revolved more around satire. The script of ""Antz"" was"
"a couple, and they give Hopper's younger brother Molt, and a few ants to P.T. Flea as new members of his troupe. Atta and Dot respectively become the new queen and princess. The ants congratulate Flik as a hero, and bid a fond farewell to the circus troupe, who promise to return in the future. During the summer of 1994, Pixar's story department began turning their thoughts to their next film. The storyline for ""A Bug's Life"" originated from a lunchtime conversation between John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft, the studio's head story team; other films such"
"Bay) is a big friendly slobbering dog. He initially had no home or way to communicate with the bugs, but Crick builds a translator and is adopted by the humans. Mee-Yow (Ashleigh Ball) is a cat that is owned by the humans. He roams about the yard and, while not necessarily mean, is shown to be rather dangerous to the bugs as it tends to attack and play with them. The Man (JR Bourne and Ian Hanlin) and Julia's Mom (Erin Mathews) Gigants are what the bugs refer to humans, whom the bugs are fascinated by. They live in the"
"on Spider-Man and another based on the Avengers, set to open starting with phase 1 in 2020. A Bug's Land closed permanently on September 4, 2018, as it will be the site for the new land. A Bug's Land (stylized ""a bug's land"") was seen from the point of view of Flik, the inventor ant from the Disney·Pixar film ""A Bug's Life"", where oversized human items were scattered throughout. It featured Flik's Fun Fair (a collection of themed, family and child-friendly attractions such as Flik's Flyers, Francis' Ladybug Boogie, Tuck & Roll's Drive 'em Buggies, Heimlich's Chew Chew Train, and"
"bugs as well), Margaret was sprayed with water from a hose, getting knocked out of the air. Stinks: (Annick Obonsawin) A running gag is that Stinks would appear whenever anyone said his 'name' (or any other word that sounds similar, such as thinks); often this happens when they are bemoaning some misfortune ('This stinks'). Delils (Diana Brooke) is a German-accent spider who tells fortunes. Boof (Carter Hayden) is Frenzel's assistant; he is a digger bug and was born from an egg that Perky found. The Grand Armandor (Andrew Pifko) is Margaret's personal wing and purse designer. Additional voices provided by"
"bacterial have been found as endosymbionts in ant guts. Some of the dominant bacteria belong to the order Rhizobiales whose members are known for being nitrogen-fixing symbionts in legumes but the species found in ant lack the ability to fix nitrogen. Fungus-growing ants that make up the tribe Attini, including leafcutter ants, cultivate certain species of fungus in the genera ""Leucoagaricus"" or ""Leucocoprinus"" of the family Agaricaceae. In this ant-fungus mutualism, both species depend on each other for survival. The ant ""Allomerus decemarticulatus"" has evolved a three-way association with the host plant, ""Hirtella physophora"" (Chrysobalanaceae), and a sticky fungus which"
"and Burt (Michael Stanton), a hyperactive flea named Lencho (Cheech Marin), a cynical artist termite named Eaton Woode (Charles Adler), a butterfly named Rosa (Candi Milo) and her boyfriend Miguel who is still in his cocoon, Amelia (Joan Van Ark), an enthusiastic damselfly, Ralph, a large friendly lady bug with a rather deep voice (George Kennedy) and a praying mantis professor who occasionally interrupts the show to give dull educational lectures, but is usually pushed off-screen by another character. The show primarily deals with slice of life stories, but often with a strange insect twist. Some episodes include the town"
"all the ants – except Zoc. Lucas is introduced to honeydew, the feces of caterpillars and he gets sick when he learns where they come from. He is shown a painting which depicts the Great Ant Mother and the evil ""Cloud-Breather"", an exterminator. Lucas is told that the Great Ant Mother will return and shower the ants with honeydew, while the Cloud-breather will spell destruction for all of them. He and his friends return to the house, where he tries to cancel Stan's contract but dials for pizza instead. To make matters worse, Tiffany comes in as a giantess, and"
"life cycle conforms to the claustral pattern of ants in general. To repel herbivorous animals, various acacias protect their succulent leaves with one of several methods, including vicious-looking spines, repellent, noxious chemicals, and as in the case of the bull's horn acacia by developing a mutualism with the Acacia ant. The symbiotic relationship begins when a newly mated queen gets attracted by the odour from the tree and starts nesting inside the large hollow acacia thorns. The queen nibbles into the thorn to lay 15–20 eggs to produce the first generation of workers. As the colony grows, more of the"
"""A Bug's Life"", ""The Ant Bully"", ""The Ant and the Aardvark"", ""Ferdy the Ant"" and ""Atom Ant."" Renowned myrmecologist E. O. Wilson wrote a short story, ""Trailhead"" in 2010 for ""The New Yorker"" magazine, which describes the life and death of an ant-queen and the rise and fall of her colony, from an ants' point of view. The French neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist Auguste Forel believed that ant societies were models for human society. He published a five volume work from 1921 to 1923 that examined ant biology and society. In the early 1990s, the video game SimAnt, which simulated"
"defeats an infestation on Pluto, the world is united as the Strategically Integrated Coalition of Nations (SICON) declares war on the insectoids. The main story focuses on a group of troopers known as Alpha Teamotherwise known as Razak's Roughneckswho are headed back to Pluto after Operation Pest Control. After destroying Bug City on Pluto, SICON sights a giant Transport Bug. This reveals that the Bugs are not native to Pluto. They track it to the planet Hydora, which orbits a star in the Constellation Virgo and encounter a Brain Bug, an intelligent Bug that controls the other castes so they"
"a biological pest control since 1992, primarily to control ""Cacopsylla pyri"". It is capable of biting humans. Common flowerbug The common flowerbug, Anthocoris nemorum, is a common minute pirate or flower bug. It is a predatory insect, feeding on small insects including greenflys and red spider mites. It is typically 3–4 mm in length, with reflective forewings and black pronotum. The legs are mostly orange-brown. It more commonly inhabits lower vegetation than trees, and especially nettles in the later half of the growing season. ""A. nemorum"" lays its eggs inside plant leaves. The common flowerbug is found across Europe and"
"him. (The Easter Bunny characterization is taken from Mel Blanc's ""Happy Postman"" radio character, including the ironic catch phrase ""Keep Smiling!"") The first house the ""joyous bunny"" visits bears a name by the door: Dead End Kid, and the mean little red-haired kid who lives inside throws the egg at Bugs' face, bites him in the leg and beats Bugs up before body-slamming him on the floor - all the while demanding, ""I wanna Easter egg! I wanna Easter egg! I wanna Easter egg!"" Bugs loses his cool and grabs the kid's arm. Unfortunately, Dead End Kid screams that Bugs"
"the bugs to be his punishment for being bad (accidentally killing someone). Sam agrees, but Hunter's death releases bugs that cannot be killed by Sam. A coyote then leads them to the creatures that are causing parasitic insect infections. The group attacks the creatures, but Dekka becomes infested with insects in the process, even though Sam burned off her shoulder in order to protect her. When near the lake, Sam and the others find a building from a nearby military airbase (the barrier cuts off the remainder of the base) They find a lone boy, Toto, whose mutant power is"
"and profanity, as well as social and political satire. ""A Bug's Life"" was more family-friendly and lighthearted in tone and story. The two films especially differ in their artistic look: ""Antz"" played off more realistic aspects of ants and how they relate to other bugs, like termites and wasps, while ""A Bug's Life"" offered a more fanciful look at insects to better suit its story. ""PopMatters"" journalist J.C. Maçek III compared the two films and wrote, ""The feud deepened with both teams making accusations and excuses and a release date war ensued. While ""Antz"" beat ""A Bug's Life"" to the"
"Pseudomyrmex ferruginea The acacia ant (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) is a species of ant of the genus ""Pseudomyrmex"". These arboreal, wasp-like ants have an orange-brown body around 3 mm in length and very large eyes. The acacia ant is best known and named for living in symbiosis with the bullhorn acacia (""Acacia cornigera"") throughout Central America. The ant and the acacia exemplify a coevolution of a mutualistic system, as described by evolutionary ecologist Daniel Janzen. ""P. ferruginea"" is an obligate plant ant that occupies at least five species of acacia (""A. chiapensis"", ""A. collinsii"", ""A. cornigera"", ""A. hindsii"" and ""A. sphaerocephala""). Its"
"underground; tunnel systems may become quite extensive. Myrmecia gulosa The red bull ant (""Myrmecia gulosa""), also known as the giant bull ant or ""hoppy joe"", is a species of bulldog ant from the genus ""Myrmecia"". It is abundant throughout Eastern Australia. The first ""Myrmecia gulosa"" specimen was collected in 1770 by Joseph Banks, making it one of the first Australian insects to be collected and described. As one of the largest of ant species, adult individuals have been observed to be as long as 15 mm to 30 mm in body length. The head and thorax are typically coloured red-brown;"
"have five immature nymph life stages and a final sexually mature adult stage. They shed their skins through ecdysis at each stage, discarding their outer exoskeleton. Newly hatched nymphs are translucent, lighter in color, and become browner as they moult and reach maturity. Bed bugs may be mistaken for other insects, such as booklice, small cockroaches, or carpet beetles; however, when warm and active, their movements are more ant-like, and like most other true bugs, they emit a characteristic disagreeable odor when crushed. Bed bugs are obligatory bloodsucking. They have mouth parts that saw through the skin, and inject saliva"
"as ""Beauty and the Bees"", ""Web Side Story"", ""Little Shop of Hoppers"" and ""My Fair Ladybug."" At Disney California Adventure, the Bug's Life theater was located in A Bug's Land. There, the queue passed through a replica of Ant Island before heading underground, where the queue appeared the same as the one at Disney's Animal Kingdom. It was originally part of the Bountiful Valley Farm area of the park until A Bug's Land was built around it. About a year before the opening of Animal Kingdom, Disney Imagineers had decided to place a show inside the park's centerpiece Tree of"
"Myrmecia gulosa The red bull ant (""Myrmecia gulosa""), also known as the giant bull ant or ""hoppy joe"", is a species of bulldog ant from the genus ""Myrmecia"". It is abundant throughout Eastern Australia. The first ""Myrmecia gulosa"" specimen was collected in 1770 by Joseph Banks, making it one of the first Australian insects to be collected and described. As one of the largest of ant species, adult individuals have been observed to be as long as 15 mm to 30 mm in body length. The head and thorax are typically coloured red-brown; the rear half of the abdomen is"
"antagonists in the 1991 life simulation video game, ""SimAnt"", the ""Final Fantasy"" series, ""Terraria"", and in the ""Half-Life 2"" video game series. The Pokémon Trapinch is based on an antlion. In Don’t Starve Together, an antlion is featured as a boss. The fictional sarlacc from the ""Star Wars"" franchise is often compared to the real-life antlion. Antlion The antlions are a group of about 2,000 species of insect in the family Myrmeleontidae, known for the fiercely predatory habits of their larvae, which in many species dig pits to trap passing ants or other prey. The adult insects are less well"
"jokey bug that is always farting. His farts are powerful enough to power machines built by Crick. He can be uncouth, but is very friendly. He gets along with Geoff the Cockroach. Dr. Robert (Ian Hanlin) is a mantis in the medical profession. He is very friendly and has perfect bedside manners. He always seems to know the perfect treatment for certain ailments. Katter (Britt McKillip; singing Frances) is a pretty caterpillar who later transforms into a butterfly. She is soft-spoken and shy, but is very friendly with everyone. She is best friends with Morgs and Millie. Morgs (David Paul"
"ants and inside their nest. Though considered an important component in an ant's immunity against parasites, some ant species have lost the gland during their evolution. These losses correlate with ants that have a 'weaving' lifestyle, such as ants in the genus ""Oecophylla"", ""Camponotus"" and ""Polyrhachis"". It was originally suggested that because this weaving lifestyle also tended to involve an arboreal lifestyle that the parasite pressure above ground was not as great as for terrestrial ants, resulting in a reduced selective pressure to keep this antibiotic gland. Recent work suggests instead that these ants may just use other antiparasite defences"
"nurse, but now she's back as the gas-guzzling, bug juice slurping school bus driver. Her big foot planted firmly on the pedal, Gillette hijacks Gus's class for a joyride to Crudd Caverns... where the Rot rules. Rot's the scariest fungus ever! Meet the Slithers — a family with a bit of a slob prob! Raging rodents are lunching on leftovers in their dirty den, and the Slithers realize they need an exterminator. The solution? Bucky, a boa constrictor with a big appetite. But digesting mouse lumps causes snake slowdown, and for a while Bucky's the ultimate cage potato. Until the"
"as it is covered by the wings; it can be exposed, perhaps to warn would-be predators of these animals' noxiousness: They frequently have scent glands that produce a stink considered to be worse than that of true stink bugs (Pentatomidae). The stink is said to smell similar to a bad case of halitosis. Sometimes the adults have reduced wings. Both, nymphs and adults of some species, such as ""Dulichius inflatus"" and ""Hyalymenus"" spp. are ant mimics and live in ant nests. These bugs mainly inhabit fairly arid and sandy habitat, like seashores, heathland, steppe and savannas. Their main food is"
"Pest Control announced that they would be changing the company's name to ""Big Blue Bug Solutions"". The bug wore a necktie for the occasion. Big Blue Bug The Big Blue Bug, also known as Nibbles Woodaway, is the giant termite mascot of Big Blue Bug Solutions located along I-95 in Providence, Rhode Island. It is claimed to be the world's largest artificial bug at 928 times the size of an actual termite, standing 9 feet (2.7 m) tall and 58 feet (17 m) long and weighing 4,000 pounds (1800 kg). It was constructed over a four-day period from wire mesh"
"the mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticula. The ant is no longer able to control the muscles of the mandible and will remain fixed in place. This lockjaw trait is popularly known as the death grip, and is essential in the fungus's lifecycle. The fungus then kills the ant, and continues to grow as its hyphae invade more soft tissues and structurally fortify the ant's exoskeleton. More mycelia then sprout out of the ant, and securely anchor it to the plant substrate while secreting antimicrobials to ward off competition. When the fungus is ready to reproduce, its fruiting bodies grow from the"
"size of an ant and take him to trial, where the judge declares him guilty. His punishment is to work hard like an ant, working in the field, gathering food, defending the colony from wasps and spiders, and taking care of the queen, the worst part of his punishment. After a while, the queen tells Lucas that he has one last test to be set free: he must go home and bring her a Red Sweet Rock (jelly bean). Lucas brings two ants with him on the journey, and they ask him what it's like being a giant. Lucas tells"