Yes, the title’s reference to Pixar’s 1998 animated film A Bug’s Life is intentional. This is a family-friendly show, shot, scored, and styled to resemble a live-action Pixar film.

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

If you didn’t grow up in the late ’90s, A Bug’s Life follows the dutiful ant colony of Ant Island, who are forced to gather food for the army of grasshoppers who fly through every spring.

“Seeds are life,” Asbell adds, “and I don’t know that anything brings me as much pleasure as growing a seed. … It’s life affirming. And in the world we live in today, you have to ...