Your Guide to Buggin' With Ruud

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Island of Giant Bugs

Ruud explores Papua, New Guinea in search of giants. He introduces viewers to some of the biggest spiders, stick insects and beetles on the planet as well as a wide range of butterflies dressed to impress the opposite sex, including the world's biggest butterfly — the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly.

Bug Guests: Water beetle, Giant water beetle, Bird-eating spider, St. Andrew's cross spider, Golden orb-weaving spider, Stick insects, Gideon beetle, Long-horned beetle, Stalk-eyed flies, Wau Valley butterflies, Goliath butterfly, Priamus, Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly chrysalis, Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly

Video: A Gideon beetle shows off its climbing skills on Ruud's face. Watch now. Aussie Attackers

Australia is infamous for dangerous sharks, poisonous snakes and an array of biting, stinging creatures. Ruud boldly sets off to find out how Aussie bugs compare on the aggravation scale. The verdict: Some are cute and benign, others could eat you out of house and home, and a notorious number have super-painful stings in their tails.

Bug Guests: Huntsman spider, White-tailed spider, Redback spider, Green Weaver ants, Hoppy Joes, Northern scorpion, Marbled scorpion, Termite, Cathedral termite, Cup moth caterpillar, Peppermint stick insect, Funnel web spider, Bull ants

Video: Why is Ruud sniffing this bug? Watch now.

Housemates From Hell

Ruud visits an American home where uninvited guests sometimes drop in. Life will never be the same again after you come face to face with centipedes, stable flies, cockroaches and a host of other bugs you share your house and garden with. Some just want peace and quiet, but others want a piece of you.

Bug Guests: Cellar spider (Daddy longlegs), Stable fly, House centipede, Tarantula, Killer Bees, Aphids, Ladybugs, Cockroaches

Video: Shoo, fly. Don't bite me. Watch now. Madagascar: Out of This World

When Madagascar split off from Africa 165 million years ago it became a floating Noah's ark. Ruud hops aboard nature's own time machine and explores a world of weird giants, nightmarish spiders, ghostly bug predators, living fossils, and newly discovered Dracula Ants that drink the blood of their own offspring.

Bug Guests: Aphaenogaster ants, Hissing cockroach, Pill millipede, Giant millipede, Giraffe weevil, Hawk moth, Archaea spider, Weta, Praying Mantis, Flattid leaf bug, Spider egg-eating ant, Dracula ants, Cerapachys ants.

Video: Bug Poo, Yum! Watch now. Desert Survivors

Ruud travels to Namibia, Africa to experience just how bugs cope in some of the toughest conditions on earth. This is a quest to find the ultimate desert survivor, and Ruud finds that survival in the Namib Desert, the hottest desert on the planet, is a true feat when there is nowhere to hide from the blistering heat. He scales dunes and trudges through an endless arid landscape to discover beetles that do handstands to harness the moisture from fog and bugs that swim beneath the sand to escape the sun.

Bug Guests: Golden wheel spider, Dune cricket, Fog-basking beetle, Nara cricket, Scavenger ants, Darkling beetle, Corolla spider, Dune ants, Buckspoor spider, Dung beetle, White lady spider, Scorpions.