0:00:02 > 0:00:03BIRDS TWEET
0:00:03 > 0:00:05Hello, adventurers! I'm Jess!
0:00:05 > 0:00:09It's time for a minibeast adventure!
0:00:10 > 0:00:12# Feelers out, what's about?
0:00:12 > 0:00:14# Creeping, sleeping
0:00:14 > 0:00:16# Under stones, here and there
0:00:16 > 0:00:18# Nesting, resting
0:00:18 > 0:00:20# Minibeasts are everywhere
0:00:20 > 0:00:21# Minibeasts are everywhere
0:00:21 > 0:00:23# Look and listen, stop and stare
0:00:23 > 0:00:25# Minibeasts are everywhere
0:00:25 > 0:00:27# A minibeast adventure!
0:00:27 > 0:00:29# Feelers out, what's about?
0:00:31 > 0:00:33# Minibeasts are everywhere
0:00:33 > 0:00:35# Look and listen, stop and stare
0:00:35 > 0:00:37# Mini worlds for us to share
0:00:37 > 0:00:39# A minibeasts adventure! #
0:00:40 > 0:00:41With Jess!
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Welcome to my tree house!
0:00:44 > 0:00:47I've got something really interesting to show you.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48Have a look at these.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51They're eggs!
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Most minibeasts come from eggs.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56These ones were laid by a butterfly.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59But the fascinating thing is that when these hatch,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02they won't be butterflies - not just yet.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05They'll be something else. Do you know what?
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Have a look in here.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Do you know what that is on the leaf?
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Yes, it's a caterpillar!
0:01:16 > 0:01:18And here's another one.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Look at its beautiful colours.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Caterpillars are eating machines.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26They eat and eat and eat as much as they can. That's their job -
0:01:26 > 0:01:28to grow bigger and bigger and bigger.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Let's have a closer look.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Here's a caterpillar busily eating away.
0:01:36 > 0:01:40Caterpillars have only six legs. It looks like they have many more,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42but the extra ones aren't legs at all -
0:01:42 > 0:01:45they're just little hooks to hold onto the leaves.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49A caterpillar crawls around, munching and munching
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and getting bigger and bigger.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Look! Here's one that's just a few days old.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02And next to it is one that's two weeks old.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Look how much it's grown!
0:02:04 > 0:02:07But they're not fully grown-up even then.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Because that's when something really magical happens.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15They wrap themselves up for a big sleep,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18and when they wake up, they're a butterfly!
0:02:18 > 0:02:21I've got two sleeping here.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24It looks a bit like a caterpillar in a sleeping bag, doesn't it?
0:02:24 > 0:02:26It's called a chrysalis,
0:02:26 > 0:02:30and when it wakes up, it will be a beautiful butterfly.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35There will almost certainly be a caterpillar living near you.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Shall we go and find one?
0:02:39 > 0:02:40Come on!
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Whatever the weather, we're off together on a minibeast adventure!
0:02:58 > 0:03:01- Hi, Lulia. Hi, Lohat! - BOTH: Hi, Jess.
0:03:01 > 0:03:06Great to see you! Today, we're going on a caterpillar adventure!
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- Have you ever seen a caterpillar before?- Uh-uh.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12No? Where do you think we might find one around here?
0:03:16 > 0:03:21- What about down there?- Yeah. - Great! Get your feelers ready, then.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23THEY GIGGLE
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Feelers out -
0:03:25 > 0:03:28what's about?!
0:03:28 > 0:03:31We're off on a minibeast adventure! Come on!
0:03:46 > 0:03:49I think there's some leaves having holes in it.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Oh, yeah! Look here, too!
0:03:52 > 0:03:54So, what do you think has been here?
0:03:54 > 0:03:57- Caterpillars.- Could be caterpillars, couldn't it?
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Something's been eating them.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03- Maybe a butterfly!- If we look really carefully...- Maybe a butterfly,
0:04:03 > 0:04:07when he was eating the leaves, and then he laid his egg.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Do you know what? I think that's exactly what happened...
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Maybe that's a cocoon.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13A cocoon? Where?!
0:04:13 > 0:04:17- There.- Maybe, she says.- That does look a little bit like a cocoon.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- Yeah.- Actually, that's just a rolled-up old leaf,
0:04:20 > 0:04:24but that is exactly what cocoons are supposed to look like.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- Let's have a look at these ones. - Found a caterpillar.- Where?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Oh, my goodness - yes, you have!
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Caterpillar!
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Wow! Isn't that amazing?!
0:04:36 > 0:04:38It's, like, yellow.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Yes, it's got a yellow head, and what colour is its body?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43- Green.- Green.- Green! Very...
0:04:43 > 0:04:45- Look at the colour... - Let me hold him.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48- What you like to hold it, Lohat?- Yeah.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50We have to be very, very careful.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Because he might eat us?
0:04:53 > 0:04:55No, not because he might hurt you -
0:04:55 > 0:04:57because YOU might hurt HIM!
0:04:58 > 0:05:02- Because minibeasts are very, very small...- Don't want to hurt him!
0:05:02 > 0:05:06I just want to touch it, but not hold it.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Are you scared, Lohat?
0:05:08 > 0:05:10If he was trying to eat me.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Agh! He wriggled his face!
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- He wriggled his face! - He's wriggly and wobbly.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21He's very wriggly and wobbly, isn't he?!
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- I want to hold it.- OK.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32- Does it hurt you? - It doesn't... It tickles a bit.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35- Is he eating you?- No!
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Caterpillars don't eat people. What do caterpillars eat?
0:05:38 > 0:05:42- Leaves.- What happens when it gets to the edge of your fingers?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- He might fall off. - But he doesn't fall off.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Why doesn't he fall off? What does he do?
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Because he can crawl...over.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Yeah! He can go upside down and sideways -
0:05:54 > 0:05:56- he can hold on really well, can't he?- Mmm.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Now we've had a really good look at him, what do you think we should do?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- Put him back. - Put him on a leaf.- Let him eat.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05He's probably hungry, isn't he? Shall we put him on this one here?
0:06:05 > 0:06:06Yeah.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Bye-bye, caterpillar!
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Bye!
0:06:15 > 0:06:17When you wake up in the morning,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20you look the same as you did when you went to bed.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22OWL HOOTS
0:06:22 > 0:06:26But when a caterpillar goes to sleep, it changes into a butterfly.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Imagine if that happened to you!
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Wow!
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Hu-huh!
0:06:41 > 0:06:44We've discovered that caterpillars love to eat and eat,
0:06:44 > 0:06:48and one plant that lots of caterpillars like to eat
0:06:48 > 0:06:51are nasturtiums, so I thought we could plant some nasturtiums for you
0:06:51 > 0:06:54to put on your balcony, to see if we can attract any caterpillars.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57- Would you like to do that? - Yep.- Yeah.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Here, you have a pot, and you have a pot, Lulia.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04- And you're going to put that in? - No, you are. With these trowels.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Think you can do that?- Mmm...
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Yeah, that's good.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Can you scoop all of that? Excellent, very good.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Is that enough?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Yeah, I think that looks great.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Now, these seeds here
0:07:25 > 0:07:28are seeds that I got from my nasturtium plant at home.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Can you make three holes to put your seeds in?
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- One...- Brilliant!- ..two, three.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37So, here's one.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Here's one for you.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- Another one?- Mm-hm.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Here you go.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49And the last one for Lulia.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56Now, cover those over. What do we need to do now we've planted these?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- Water them. - Water them, yes! So, here you go.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01You have a watering can there.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Give them a little bit of water. That's it.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Excellent! And I'm going to give you
0:08:07 > 0:08:09this nasturtium as well, for your balcony -
0:08:09 > 0:08:12this is one that I planted.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Do you think caterpillars will come?
0:08:15 > 0:08:17I need to wash my hands.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19JESS LAUGHS
0:08:22 > 0:08:25That was a lovely minibeast adventure.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27I hope Lulia and Lohat's flowers grow
0:08:27 > 0:08:30and attract lots of butterflies and caterpillars.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32How are MY caterpillars doing?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Looks like they're still hungry!
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Maybe you could go on a caterpillar adventure, too?
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Look for leaves with lots of holes in them -
0:08:41 > 0:08:44that's a great clue that there's some caterpillars nearby.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Feelers out, what's about?
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Happy hunting, adventurers!