Plot Summary:In a vacant corner lot off Broadway (by about a yard) is a place called the Lowlands by the tiny community that lives there. Bugs and insects are neighbors and hang out at the Honey Shop of old Mr. Bumble the bee and his daughter Honey. Hoppity the grasshopper arrives to be with Honey, his sweetie. This bugs the crooked C. Bagley Beetle, so do his bunglers Smack the Mosquito and Swat the Fly. The Beetle wants Honey and the Lowlands for himself. But the Human Ones, with their littering and carelessness, pose a threat of destruction to every Lowland home of bug and beetle alike. Despite the doomsaying of Mr. Creeper, the snail, Hoppity finds hope of a new home behind the house of two Human Ones: Mary, who cares for a beautiful garden; and Dick, a struggling songwriter who puts his own hope on a Broadway hit to save his home.
Look at all the human ones down there. They look just like a lot of little bugs! 都市化破壞昆蟲棲息地，種族大遷徙的趣味影射。佛萊雪兄弟第二部動畫長片，卻生不逢時，珍珠港事件的爆發導致票房不佳，1942年他倆的動畫工作室因財務困難畫下句點。不過一個世紀後本片逐漸被重新評價，尤其日本動畫人特別推崇。《麵包超人》作者柳瀨嵩評為自己最喜歡的15部動畫片之一，高畑勲、庵野秀明等人均認為是成為動畫師必看之作。