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Features the world of insects and arachnids that is hidden in the undergrowth. Also features a world populated by the undergrowth invertebrates that have migrated into houses and inhabit the dark corners and spaces in the living room, larder or kitchen. Includes everyday bugs, beetles, centipedes, mites, spiders, dragonflies and moths, as well as scorpions, mantids and locusts.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hard not to give five stars, 4 Dec 2005

By	Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

The BBC's "Life in the Undergrowth", presented by the seemingly indefatigable David Attenborough, takes us down into the diminutive world of the invertebrates. There are a lot of them - they outnumber us two hundred million to one - but, apart from spotting the occasional wasp, bee, fly or spider, we rarely pay them any attention.

The television series takes us down to their scale, using the latest in technology to get astonishing close ups of the insect world. And the images are truly astonishing. The tiniest creatures are revealed in their everyday struggle for survival. You are left with total admiration for their problem solving skills - they have each evolved to find a niche which they can exploit and in which they can thrive. There are spiders with ingenious means of capturing their prey … and there's a millipede which climbs inside caves and hunts bats! They live lonely lives, they live in vast societies. They climb high, they delve low. Some fly, some tunnel. There is such variety, each episode holds you rapt.

And my favourites? I am not happy with spiders - now there's an admission - but they fascinate me. So do ants, and the presentation of the ultimate society at work is utterly absorbing. But, my absolute favourite is the mating of the leopard slugs, incredibly beautiful, incredibly tender, incredibly erotic - and I am not planning to see a therapist.

The series explores the many worlds of the invertebrates and also offers invaluable insight into the way the films were made. It's an instructive set of DVD's which should inspire you not only to look more closely at the teeming life which surrounds you, unnoticed, but which may also stimulate your interest in photography and science. A series you can watch again and again, and, if you are hooked, I advocate that you look at the buglife.org website for further information on the subject.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Attenborough, 20 Feb 2006

By	Karim S. Moukaddem "mouka9" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Anyone who watches this series will find plenty to look for on their countryside walks. The series explores insects in places we never thought of. The excellent photography is unparalleled anywhere. It is of such high quality I found myself forgetting the miniscule size of these insects. Everyday objects held by Attenborough were shown beside the insects for comparison. The narration is that of the master himself who teaches us a trick or two on how and where to look for some of these insects. David Attenborough should be cloned.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic - but could have been better!, 8 Dec 2005

By	M. Wilkinson (Portsmouth, Hampshire) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Anyone with even a passing interest in Natural History knows that David Attenborough's wildlife series really are the flagships of the field, Life in the Undergrowth, following on from Life of Mammals is the latest and explores the world of terrestrial invertebrates. The choice to pick that group and use that term is the first thing that stops me awarding the full five stars - students of natural history have known for centuries that it is unwise to describe a group by what it is not - for example, trees are also terrestrial invertebrates! Most of the series is heavily focused on the arthropods and mostly on the group 'Insecta' within that, although a few terrestrial molluscs and types of worm are included. It is the scant attention to classification that is a little worrying, we see a velvet worm in the first episode and a giant earth worm later on, but there is no attempt made to point out that these two 'worms' are about as closely related as horses and squid.

It would have also been nice to include more - surely there was more to say about the terrestrial invertebrates, another few episodes would have been welcome but the decision seems to have been for less but more exciting footage, grand displays such as the mass swarming of the mayflies in episode 1. You'll be left wanting more after the 5th episode.

The dvd pack makes for a wonderful gift, though I was a tiny bit upset at the lack of extras - there werent even the short 'making off' documentaties called 'fly on the wall' which show at the end of each episode on BBC1.

If you are looking to really understand much of what you see, it would probably be advisable to get some sort of book on the subject to accompany the series - and NOT the one that accompanies the series, which was very disappointing.

This is still David Attenborough at his very best though, an enthusiastic spokesperson for mankind about cherishing the living creatures around us, even the neglected ones underfoot and all around. Small is beautiful!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A bugs life meets reality TV, fantastic.
like all the other David Attenborough series, photography is stunning, attention to detail simply superb.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Just the usual mindblowing stuff from David Attenborough
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