This episode looks at the insects that produce silk. This episode explores flying insects: mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies including cascade damsels and helicopter damsels, butterflies, moths, bumblebees, flies, titan beetles, and cicadas.

It features centipedes hunting bats, the bizarre mating ritual of leopard slugs, millipedes finding partners, and scorpions adapted to a desert habitat. This episode gives a brief explanation of how invertebrates became the first creatures of any kind to colonise dry land. And the fifth and final episode 'Supersocieties' looks at the superorganisms formed by bees, ants and termites.Įpisode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 The fourth episode 'Intimate Relations' focuses on the relationships between invertebrates and plants or The insects that produce silk, focusing on spiders. The third episode 'The Silk Spinners' looks at The second episode 'Taking to the Air' explores flying insects. The first creatures of any kind to colonise dry land. The first episode 'Invasion of the Land' gives a brief explanation of how invertebrates became The series consists of five episodes that reveal the private life of invertebrates using stunning images which haveīeen taken using high tech cameras like optical probes. Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC documentary series presented by David Attenborough, exploring the diversity of terrestrial invertebrates,

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