Leaf litter is a hot commodity on the mangrove forest floor, especially for sesarmid crabs who can hear them fall, even when deep inside their burrows. Above ground, the prized leaves are aggressively fought over, as you'll see in our latest iPhone Film.

Segments, spines, spiracles and silky threads … all it takes is an iPhone camera and a little time spent outdoors to unlock all the visual wonderfulness of the tiny world of the caterpillar.

Flowers are in bloom and harvesting for honey is in full swing ... our iPhone camera captures the busy hymenopteran pursuits of bees.

Our latest iPhone-filming mission: to boost your myrmecophily (ant love)! Check out the planet’s masters of social living and industry … filmed, as usual, on our trusty iPhone camera. It’s f-ant-astic!

Armed with razor-like predatory legs, powerful compound eyes and a knack for camouflage, the giant green mantid is built for the kill. Our crew uses their iPhone 4S to capture this stealthy hunter in action.

Don't let the plush, downy appearance of the velvet worm fool you, these curious creatures hunt their insect prey by spraying them with an adhesive mucous before sucking out their insides! Equipped with an olloclip macro attachment, our iPhone camera gets up close and personal with the writhing plushness that is the velvet worm.

This week, our iPhone camera zooms in on a snake that’s mastered the art of the arboreal ambush. The vine snake’s slender, elongated shape and cryptic colouration were designed for life in the trees.

From those distinctive ‘horns’ to a flick of the eye and a twitch of a scale, we’re getting up close and personal with the venomous Gaboon viper … and all of its serpentine motion was filmed entirely on an iPhone 4S.

From lurking eels to starfish feasts, this is what happens when you take an iPhone camera underwater to film one of the most complex and densely populated marine environments on the planet … the coral reef.