How to watch Bug Out

How to watch Bug Out

Bug Out delves into the mystery of the largest known live insect heist in history.

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Jo Price

Published: March 4, 2022 at 10:00 am

When is Bug Out on TV?

Bug Out is on IMDb TV, which is available to watch via Amazon Prime Video, from 4th March 2022. It’s a four-part series.

What is Bug Out about?

Bug Out is a whodunnit about the the biggest known live insect burglary in history. The documentary series shines a light on a stranger-than-fiction robbery and its bizarre cast of bug smugglers, dealers and collectors.

It is set in the US’s first bug zoo, the Philadelphia Insectarium & Butterfly Pavilion.

In August 2018, the museum’s boss, Dr John Cambridge arrived at work to find a room that should have been full of invertebrates, was empty. Thousands of critters, worth approximately £38,000, had been stolen.

While investigating the crime Philadelphia police uncover a seedy subculture of bug poachers, obsessive collectors and illicit smugglers.

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Which animals appear in Bug Out?

Scorpions, tarantulas, millipedes, rhinoceros cockroaches and a six-eyed sand spider (one of the world’s most venomous arachnids).

Who directs Bug Out?

Ben Feldman, who was working as a lawyer in Philadelphia when the heist news broke. Bug Out took Ben three years to make and he left his legal career to become a full-time film-maker.

Main image: rhinoceros cockroach © skydie/iStock/Getty

Jo Price

Deputy editor, BBC Wildlife Magazine

Jo Price is the deputy editor of BBC Wildlife Magazine. She trained as a journalist at Cardiff University and has been a member of the BBC Wildlife team for nine years, working in various roles. Jo commissions exciting natural history content and interviews experts for the magazine’s Wild Times section and discoverwildlife.com. She enjoys wildlife gardening to support an array of species, including a few hedgehogs: creating a hedgehog highway has resulted in the prickly mammals visiting her suburban garden to forage and hibernate. Jo spends her weekends exploring local nature reserves, Magor Marsh and RSPB Newport Wetlands, and going on countryside walks and bike rides with her family.

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