0:00:04 > 0:00:06Hello, adventurers! I'm Jess.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10It's time for a Minibeast Adventure!
0:00:10 > 0:00:12# Feelers out, what's about?
0:00:12 > 0:00:16# Creeping, sleeping Under stones here and there
0:00:16 > 0:00:20# Nesting, resting Minibeasts are everywhere
0:00:20 > 0:00:24# Minibeasts are everywhere Look and listen, stop and stare
0:00:24 > 0:00:27# Minibeasts are everywhere A Minibeast Adventure!
0:00:27 > 0:00:31# Feelers out, what's about?
0:00:31 > 0:00:35# Minibeasts are everywhere Look and listen, stop and stare
0:00:35 > 0:00:40# Miniworlds for us to share A Minibeast Adventure! #
0:00:40 > 0:00:42With Jess.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Welcome to my treehouse. Take a look at this.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Do you know what that is?
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Looks a bit like a butterfly, doesn't it?
0:00:52 > 0:00:55But it's not a butterfly, it's a moth.
0:00:55 > 0:01:00This particularly fantastic species is a death's-head hawk moth.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Can you believe something that beautiful lives in the UK?
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Well, it does, but you might not have seen it
0:01:06 > 0:01:09because they come out at night while we're sleeping.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13There's loads of different types of moths in the UK.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16They come into our houses and flutter around the lights.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20This one would be fluttering around too if it were night-time.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22But it's day time and it's sleeping
0:01:22 > 0:01:25so that gives us a chance to have a good look at it.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28It has huge eyes which help it to see at night
0:01:28 > 0:01:31and a fluffy coat to keep it warm.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35A moth is an insect so it has six legs
0:01:35 > 0:01:40and it has straight pale antennae to sense the world around it.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43It looks a bit like a butterfly, doesn't it?
0:01:43 > 0:01:47So how can we tell the difference between butterflies and moths?
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Well, moths often come out at night
0:01:50 > 0:01:53but butterflies only come out in the day.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56There's another way to tell the difference too.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58I've got a painted lady butterfly in here.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Look carefully at the wings.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03How do they fold them up?
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Butterflies fold their wings up like this.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Now look at our moth.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Can you see it's more of a dart shape
0:02:11 > 0:02:15and when it closes its wings it folds them along its back?
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Butterflies...up.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Moths...down.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23Try to remember that when we go on today's moth adventure.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27You're probably thinking we have to wait until night to find moths
0:02:27 > 0:02:31but actually there's quite a lot of moths that fly in the day.
0:02:31 > 0:02:32Shall we go and find one?
0:02:34 > 0:02:35Come on!
0:02:42 > 0:02:47Whatever the weather we're off together on a Minibeast Adventure!
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- Hi, Rowan. Hi, Lilliah. - BOTH:- Hello, Jess!
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Brilliant to see you.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Today we're going on a moth adventure.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05- Have you ever seen a moth before? - I have on holiday.
0:03:05 > 0:03:10- It was like a butterfly.- Oh, have you ever seen one, Lilliah?- Nope.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14Well, hopefully you'll see one today. Get your feelers ready.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17- ALL:- Feelers out, what's about?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20We're off on a Minibeast Adventure!
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Come on.
0:03:26 > 0:03:31A really good way to look for moths is to sweep for them with nets.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33- Shall we try that?- Yes.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39Now let's see if we can find any moths, shall we?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44I think I got moths.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46No.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49- Any moths?- No.
0:03:49 > 0:03:54- Loads of insects in there.- Wow! Any moths though?- No.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58- It's not easy to catch them. - It is not easy to catch them.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00What is that green thing?
0:04:00 > 0:04:04- Where?- There.- Oh, my goodness! Look at this.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07I think it's a little grasshopper.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11Look how green it is. Isn't that amazing?
0:04:11 > 0:04:12Ooh!
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Ha-ha-ha!
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Did it jump onto you, Rowan?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21- It's very hard finding moths. - It is very hard.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25- You only see them at night-time.- You do normally see them at night-time.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Look, I've got two moths in here!
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Can you see them? These white things here.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36- It's not actually a moth. - That is a moth.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39- What was the one you saw like? - It was brown.
0:04:39 > 0:04:44There's lots and lots of different types and different shapes of moth.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Some are big and some are little, like these ones.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49They look like butterflies.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53They do look a bit like butterflies, don't they? What's different?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Different thing that they hold their wings like...
0:04:56 > 0:05:00They're holding their wings backwards, aren't they?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03But butterflies hold their wings straight up.
0:05:06 > 0:05:13- I got something.- What have you got? That is beautiful.- Is it a moth?
0:05:13 > 0:05:18- It is a moth. Look at the colours on that.- It's pink and grey.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22It's got lots of colours on it. What are these things at the front here?
0:05:22 > 0:05:27- Feelers.- What do you think a moth does with its feelers?
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Do you think it listens with them?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- Do you think it sees with them?- No.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36It uses those to smell
0:05:36 > 0:05:41and it can smell things that are really, really far away.
0:05:41 > 0:05:46It could smell from another country.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50Oh, well, it's almost that far.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54It's almost like if in the next village they were cooking a pizza
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- and you could smell it from here. - Shall we put it back?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Ooh, it heard you! It just flew away.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05How good are you at smelling?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Could you smell a flower from this close?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Or from here?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13How about from this far away?
0:06:17 > 0:06:22A moth can smell its food from right over the other side of town.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30Most moths come out at night so it's very difficult to see them
0:06:30 > 0:06:33but last night I put out a special trap.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38Hopefully we've got some inside. Shall we have a look?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Now if we carefully lift this out...
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Shall we see what we've got under these egg boxes?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49- I see one!- Oh, wow.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53- We've got lots of them, haven't we?- It flew away!
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Oh, they're all flying away. Why are they flying away, Lilliah?
0:06:57 > 0:07:02- Because it's not night-time.- Yeah, they're going to find somewhere else
0:07:02 > 0:07:07to hide because we've woken them up. Wow, look at his head.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12- It looks a bit like a wasp, it does. - A bit like a wasp?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15- Shall we take the other side out as well?- Yeah.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Moths do make holes in clothes, they do.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Moths do make holes in clothes sometimes, don't they?
0:07:24 > 0:07:28There is a special moth that eats clothes, but not all of them
0:07:28 > 0:07:30and not these ones.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33- They're night-time ones. - Oh, look at this one.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Wow, can you see?
0:07:35 > 0:07:39- Rowan, look at this one.- Wow! - Isn't that beautiful?- Yes.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43They're much better than the moths that didn't want to come out.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47They're much better than the moths we saw during the day, aren't they?
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- Yeah.- Tonight you might find even more moths.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54- They might come and live in the trap.- We could do it again tonight.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56You could do it at home.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00All you have to do is put up a white sheet and put a light behind it
0:08:00 > 0:08:04- and then moths will come towards it. - An old sheet?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06It can be any white sheet.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09- I would like to see some pretty ones.- Pretty ones?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- I want to see that one.- This one?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18I'm putting up a sheet ready to do a bit of moth spotting
0:08:18 > 0:08:23when it gets dark. If I shine my torch on the sheet
0:08:23 > 0:08:27it will attract moths and I can have a really close look at them.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Maybe you could go on a moth adventure too.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33You might be able to find a day-flying moth or maybe
0:08:33 > 0:08:38you could stay up late one night and use a sheet and a torch like I am.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Feelers out, what's about?
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Happy hunting, adventurers!