:00:24. > :00:36.Never clap at the beginning t might be rubbish!
:00:37. > :00:39.Welcome. We might have science, a little bit of guest and you, it's
:00:40. > :00:43.your programme. We want to hear from you, any questions you have,y
:00:44. > :00:46.photographs you would like to send us, anything to contribute we would
:00:47. > :00:50.like to see them. . We got off to a flying start last
:00:51. > :00:57.night. But I am pleased to welcome some fabulous guests tonight.
:00:58. > :01:01.First of all, Dwayne Fields, a man who is an adventurer, but also an
:01:02. > :01:04.ambassador, a man with a mission to get children out of cities and into
:01:05. > :01:12.the countryside. We will be meeting Dwayne later. Now, Erica McAlister
:01:13. > :01:16.from the natural history museum. A lady who is never undone when it
:01:17. > :01:21.comes it flies because they are her specialty and you will be telling us
:01:22. > :01:29.about their lifestyles and others. I am pleased to welcome Levon Biss.
:01:30. > :01:31.You may know that I have a reputation for being ferociously
:01:32. > :01:36.critical when it comes to photographry but I am pleased to say
:01:37. > :01:41.that yours meet the mark and more. We have got some fantastic
:01:42. > :01:45.photographs to see later that are extraordinary. Look forward to
:01:46. > :01:51.those. Lindsey. Chris, hello. What a day we have had weather-wise. It has
:01:52. > :01:55.been unbelievable, sun, rain, thunder a moment ago and our
:01:56. > :02:01.wildlife has been suffering. We are in here, yeah, the wildlife is out
:02:02. > :02:09.there. Absolutely. Look at this, this was our Robins last night, it
:02:10. > :02:13.was pretty damp. Rose got in touch and said, those robins aren't going
:02:14. > :02:17.to fledge today, that was yesterday. Who would blame them? Actually you
:02:18. > :02:22.are wrong, they did go. One of them went last night and the rest this
:02:23. > :02:25.morning. The one that went last night was a fool! Complete fool,
:02:26. > :02:29.heading out into darkness in rain like this. I wasn't telling the
:02:30. > :02:33.whole story, we will see this later. It did get one feed. We think that
:02:34. > :02:40.after watching them today they're still OK at the moment. I hope so
:02:41. > :02:43.because that robin was brave. We also had this picture sent in. This
:02:44. > :02:49.was during last night's show. This is from Scott. He wants to know what
:02:50. > :02:53.this is. It's a fantastic insect. I have to be honest here, we sometimes
:02:54. > :03:02.rehearse the top of this. Lindsey asked me what this was a minute ago
:03:03. > :03:09.and I said probably a spurdge moth. It wasn't. It's years since I have
:03:10. > :03:14.seen a private moth. I will get my coat and leave! Erica will never
:03:15. > :03:19.forgive me. I couldn't believe how huge it was. Let me show you this.
:03:20. > :03:28.Nothing I like more than an unusual nest on Unsprung. This one is
:03:29. > :03:32.beautiful. It's been sent in by Natasha, the nest inside a post box
:03:33. > :03:38.and it's closed for birds nesting. I wonder what it is in there. Do send
:03:39. > :03:42.me your unusual nests, I love them. Now time for tonight's quiz. It's a
:03:43. > :03:48.fab quiz. Look at the picture. There it is. What we have done is we have
:03:49. > :03:53.enlarged a section of an insect. The question is what is that insect? Get
:03:54. > :03:57.in touch right now. You can do that if you use the hashtag Springwatch.
:03:58. > :04:06.We are on Facebook and Twitter. Get in touch with us, links on the
:04:07. > :04:11.website. It is tough. We might give clues. Our first guest, Dwayne
:04:12. > :04:15.Fields, thank you very much for coming in.
:04:16. > :04:18.APPLAUSE. Before we get on your arrival into
:04:19. > :04:22.the UK, you found yourself here locked in a city and needed to get
:04:23. > :04:28.out of it and you took some rather extreme measures. You didn't just go
:04:29. > :04:32.to the park or a day out, you went to the North Pole. Yeah. Why? Sounds
:04:33. > :04:36.strange when you say it like that. I went to the North Pole because it
:04:37. > :04:39.was a great way to announce that I love the outdoors. I wanted people
:04:40. > :04:43.to look at me and say that's an odd thing to do and like you did, why
:04:44. > :04:49.did you do it and it would give me a chance to speak because I love the
:04:50. > :04:54.sound of my own voice. I love the outdoors, as extreme and cold as it
:04:55. > :05:00.is and hot, I just love it. It is, here you are sporting a mandatory
:05:01. > :05:06.beard. And the icicles show up. You walked to the Pole, let's not forget
:05:07. > :05:11.that. 440-mile journey, I walked it. That image, I wanted to capture the
:05:12. > :05:14.vintage look of a real Polar explorer, I grew a beard especially
:05:15. > :05:19.and that happened, it was great. Fantastic experience. It's not just
:05:20. > :05:23.about going to the Pole. Now you have a venture which is to get young
:05:24. > :05:27.people out of cities. You came to the UK having lived in the
:05:28. > :05:34.countryside. Yes. In Jamaica. Yes. We have a picture of you here as a
:05:35. > :05:38.young lad. There you are. That's me at age six years old, five years
:05:39. > :05:42.old, just before I came here to the UK. That was actually in a rural
:05:43. > :05:46.part of Jamaica, so loads of countryside and open spaces, trees,
:05:47. > :05:52.you name it, it was a dream to be there. There were wild animals,
:05:53. > :05:57.nests and I was a real explorer and adventurer at the time. I would see
:05:58. > :06:01.termites nests and I would climb a tree to find out what's living in
:06:02. > :06:05.there. Fast forward, I get brought to the UK and all of a sudden it's
:06:06. > :06:09.concrete areas, less trees, less open spaces. I find myself in a
:06:10. > :06:15.place where actually I don't fit in. How did you feel? To be honest I
:06:16. > :06:20.felt really, I felt low. I went through a period I probably would
:06:21. > :06:24.liken it to depression. As a young child you don't understand changes
:06:25. > :06:29.as much and you can see a picture of me holding a squirrel and... This is
:06:30. > :06:34.in London. I climbed a tree, found a squirrel's nest and rescued a squirm
:06:35. > :06:39.from the nest. That was me trying to hold on to what I thought was the
:06:40. > :06:42.real me, which is the boy that loves to investigate and inspect and look
:06:43. > :06:47.and learn and tried to recreate it here in London and it didn't work
:06:48. > :06:50.out from such a young age actually. One of the problems I presume is
:06:51. > :06:54.like many young people who have a keen interest in natural history you
:06:55. > :06:57.are the only one in the class, the only one in the school that has that
:06:58. > :07:01.interest, none of your peers share it? Definitely. An example of what
:07:02. > :07:07.happened to me at one point where I tried to share my interest, picture
:07:08. > :07:11.a seven-year-old boy in primary school, and I had a handful of, I
:07:12. > :07:17.think it was wood lice and they were in a plastic container, I realised
:07:18. > :07:20.one was carrying live wood lice on the stomach, I thought it would be a
:07:21. > :07:25.good idea to share with friends and the school. As soon as I showed them
:07:26. > :07:28.the tub and urgh, what are you doing and left me standing by myself. That
:07:29. > :07:32.happened throughout my life. It got to the stage where I almost gave up
:07:33. > :07:37.on the fact that I loved nature and loved the outdoors because of it.
:07:38. > :07:40.But now your mission is to make sure that doesn't happen to other young
:07:41. > :07:45.people of course. Exactly right. I don't want other young people to
:07:46. > :07:48.feel isolated because they like the outdoors, like insects and animals
:07:49. > :07:53.or like the natural world as a whole. I am now working to get more
:07:54. > :07:55.young people out there, the more that enjoy it, the more they'll see
:07:56. > :08:00.they have it in common and hopefully will go on to protect it in the
:08:01. > :08:02.future. We are talking not just about white middle-class kids, we
:08:03. > :08:06.are talking about black people and I am if honest, the last time I saw a
:08:07. > :08:10.black person out exploring the countryside was probably about five
:08:11. > :08:14.or six years ago. Why is it, why do you think that black people don't
:08:15. > :08:17.get into it that way? I think it's a combination of things actually,
:08:18. > :08:21.Chris. I think if you look at the cultural heritage, for example, in
:08:22. > :08:25.Jamaica, if you go to a town and announce that you are from the
:08:26. > :08:28.country, there is a stigma and stereo type associated with it, they
:08:29. > :08:33.describe you as someone coming from the back of the bush. That's not a
:08:34. > :08:36.very pleasant way of being described. On the flipside, here in
:08:37. > :08:41.London, most of the people this that we see on TV are white middle-class
:08:42. > :08:47.men, in particular, who are adventurers and explorers and have
:08:48. > :08:52.done things. And working-class. Gravitate to middle-class now. You
:08:53. > :08:57.see what I mean. I agree. It's a great sadness to us that we don't
:08:58. > :09:01.have the full racial mix of people, Asian, as well, not just black.
:09:02. > :09:06.Absolutely. It's just, we can look back and say most of the people that
:09:07. > :09:09.are doing adventures right now come from a military background, from a
:09:10. > :09:15.private school background. They've been encouraged to do these things,
:09:16. > :09:18.it's a way of carrying on that, I am macho, strong, male, and young
:09:19. > :09:22.people aren't encouraged to do it as such because it is seen a place that
:09:23. > :09:29.may not be safe and we don't know that area, we know our cities and
:09:30. > :09:32.our streets and Marble Arches but don't know the countryside that
:09:33. > :09:36.well. What we don't know, we look at as that might be dangerous and I
:09:37. > :09:39.will stay in a safe place. There can be wildlife on Oxford Street, no
:09:40. > :09:42.doubt about it and certainly at Marble Arch. We encourage you to
:09:43. > :09:46.carry on doing what you are doing, it's a fantastic job. We have to get
:09:47. > :09:51.more kids, particularly black kids out in the countryside. Catch up
:09:52. > :09:54.with you later. Lindsey. There are loads of groups out there
:09:55. > :09:58.if young people want to get involved in nature. Many of you have been in
:09:59. > :10:02.touch, loads in touch, to say you are enjoying our live cameras. If
:10:03. > :10:06.you head over to our website you can watch them 20 hours of the day. Here
:10:07. > :10:10.are nine of them. Let's have a closer look at a camera live now.
:10:11. > :10:16.It's our Wrens nest. Absolutely beautiful.
:10:17. > :10:20.But if you think watching nine cameras is tough, you should try
:10:21. > :10:25.watching 30, it's what our story developers do. We went to see how it
:10:26. > :10:33.all works. This is Unsprung Undressed.
:10:34. > :10:36.On Springwatch the biggest stamps are the animals we -- the biggest
:10:37. > :10:40.stars are the animals we love to follow. There are over 30 live
:10:41. > :10:45.cameras monitoring them 24 hours a day.
:10:46. > :10:51.So that we don't miss a moment of the action.
:10:52. > :10:55.From 4pm to 4am, story developers Harry and Clare have their eyes
:10:56. > :10:59.glued to the screens but it's not such a long and lonely night, they
:11:00. > :11:06.have the wildlife for company. When do we get to see Robins sleeping at
:11:07. > :11:13.night so close or badgers coming out of their setts or peregrines? It's
:11:14. > :11:17.special and crucial for the show. We have seen some badgers, that would
:11:18. > :11:23.be great. One of the most lively characters at night is the barn owl.
:11:24. > :11:30.We have named her Beatrice. Don't think anyone else calls her that. I
:11:31. > :11:35.wanted a strong female name. I think she's gross, to be honest. Keeps us
:11:36. > :11:41.company. I like how she's looking out of the box. Looks nice. In the
:11:42. > :11:45.early hours of the morning some camera-shy animals finally turn up.
:11:46. > :11:50.Badgers on two cameras, that's amazing. It's moments like that we
:11:51. > :11:56.get to watch an elusive animal that doesn't know we are here, definitely
:11:57. > :12:00.makes it worth it. Then it's time for a shift change before it all
:12:01. > :12:03.happens again. APPLAUSE.
:12:04. > :12:08.Let's hear it for our story developers. I have to say, amongst
:12:09. > :12:11.all the team they probably have one of the toughest jobs of all because
:12:12. > :12:16.they've got to stay awake and the rest of us fall asleep at some
:12:17. > :12:22.point. Not now. Erica, thank you very much for coming in. Pleasure to
:12:23. > :12:29.see you. Thank you. I am going to play devil's advocate. Why flies?
:12:30. > :12:34.Why not? Quite. Flies are fascinating. The problem is they've
:12:35. > :12:37.such bad press, everyone hates them and ignores them and thinks they're
:12:38. > :12:44.revolting and actually one in every ten animals is a fly. It's about
:12:45. > :12:47.time we actually properly communicated what they do, how they
:12:48. > :12:50.live and all of that. Once you start looking you don't go back. It's all
:12:51. > :13:02.about the flies from there on. It's a tough sell. Let's listen to a
:13:03. > :13:14.famous fly. BUZZING. That's the buzz of a
:13:15. > :13:18.mosquito. The males we really need them, they're pollinators. We need
:13:19. > :13:22.these little males out there. And they're quite attractive. They are.
:13:23. > :13:28.Very attractive. Let's look at more attractive flies. You brought a tray
:13:29. > :13:30.from the museum here. These are all British species. We can appreciate
:13:31. > :13:34.the diversity of one group of animals. All the ones I picked out
:13:35. > :13:38.are the large ones to show you what's going on. You have got things
:13:39. > :13:43.that are a couple of millimetres in size, all the way up to the largest
:13:44. > :13:49.species, which is this, one of the crane flies. Amazing animal really.
:13:50. > :13:54.What about the favourite British fly, sell me your favourite British
:13:55. > :13:59.fly? Well, I have quite a few soft spots. It varies depending which
:14:00. > :14:03.week. One of my favourites is this one. I know everyone goes on about
:14:04. > :14:11.the revolting lifestyles of some flies, and this one is probably a
:14:12. > :14:22.little bit cheeky. This is the deerbot fly. We call these the
:14:23. > :14:27.snotbots, she gives birth to the young, fire it is out into the
:14:28. > :14:34.nostrils of the red deer and these deer know when she's looping around
:14:35. > :14:40.them and they can hear her and all try and snort and she fires in the
:14:41. > :14:47.lavcae to live under the tongue of deer. It fires up the nose of a
:14:48. > :14:51.deer! Who could rebuff a fly like that? You have also been travelling
:14:52. > :14:59.around the world. It's not just UK flies, you have been to
:15:00. > :15:09.I am going to the Caribbean tomorrow. Looking for flies? Yes.
:15:10. > :15:16.All round the world. They can answer so many questions. We can look at
:15:17. > :15:20.food security, disease spread, pollination studies, climate
:15:21. > :15:25.control, climate change. Flies are there, answering our questions. Can
:15:26. > :15:31.I ask your question about flies. I used to lie on a watching houseflies
:15:32. > :15:36.around the lake in the centre of the room and occasionally they would
:15:37. > :15:39.grapple with one another, and they would fall onto the carpet, and I
:15:40. > :15:46.would watch them before they took off. At one point, someone told me
:15:47. > :15:51.that I fly can meet in the time it takes to fall from the Chanticleer
:15:52. > :15:57.to the carpet. -- chandelier. Some are very quick. One of the flies
:15:58. > :16:01.that we love, it has an amazing ability to meet and they can do it
:16:02. > :16:16.really quickly. Others take a lot longer. Is that true? On the
:16:17. > :16:20.species. Show us the biggest one. I love these. These are great. You can
:16:21. > :16:27.tell the difference between the sex very easily because this is a
:16:28. > :16:39.female. The male has no separation between his eyeballs. And they are
:16:40. > :16:42.biting flies? The males are vegetarians. You've got to be
:16:43. > :16:45.careful when you say we've got to get rid of them because they are
:16:46. > :16:52.terrible. These look like they can break into metal. They've got these
:16:53. > :17:03.massive shredding mouthparts. They are the fattest fly in Europe. We've
:17:04. > :17:09.got a close-up view with her camera but not as close as we can get. This
:17:10. > :17:17.is a relatively common species but we will zoom in and in until you can
:17:18. > :17:32.just see the light sensitive organs between its eyes. People get angry
:17:33. > :17:46.because the arrangement of these hairs here and there, that is how we
:17:47. > :17:59.identify it. Come with me to Levon coming in. -- Levon Biss. The
:18:00. > :18:07.photographs are remarkable. You're not interested in etymological
:18:08. > :18:13.photography. Yes, I photographed humans. It came from my boy. It was
:18:14. > :18:16.when he brought in a beetle from the Garden and I looked at it under the
:18:17. > :18:22.microscope and I saw how beautiful it was. This is not an ordinary
:18:23. > :18:37.picture of a tropical fly. It is a wasp. I photographed with microscope
:18:38. > :18:42.lenses. I squash the layers of focus together to create a final image.
:18:43. > :18:49.This is made up of 8000 separate shots. It takes four weeks to
:18:50. > :18:56.create. And all of that time you've got to keep this specimen dead still
:18:57. > :19:05.on your microscope? These are already dead. They are from the
:19:06. > :19:13.Oxford University Museum. I need to photographic in three days. You
:19:14. > :19:16.crunch 8000 images through software and produce this image. It is
:19:17. > :19:32.remarkable. I will photograph and then I will
:19:33. > :19:40.move it but the lighting setup will change completely. I bring those 20
:19:41. > :19:44.sections together to produce the final image. This is absolutely
:19:45. > :19:55.remarkable and you get the sense of that iridescence that they are
:19:56. > :20:06.using. It is beautiful. This is a fantastic Tiger beetle. What next?
:20:07. > :20:09.Looking at doing a project on insects caught in amber. They are
:20:10. > :20:24.millions of years old. These are absolutely outstanding, I
:20:25. > :20:27.will give you ?20 in cash for this one because I would love to see it
:20:28. > :20:35.on my wall. It is beautiful. Let's hear it for Levon Biss. Stunning
:20:36. > :20:39.pictures. We love to celebrate the natural world but also the people
:20:40. > :20:48.who are passionate about it. Here are two of them. My name is Mike, I
:20:49. > :20:54.am an entomologist who studies insects. That is my life. Mike has
:20:55. > :20:57.been volunteering at this valley on the edge of Birmingham for 40 years.
:20:58. > :21:03.He combines his encyclopaedic knowledge of insects with his
:21:04. > :21:07.vocation. I've been a teacher at the job of the teacher is to teach and
:21:08. > :21:15.to learn. Then other people might get to enjoy the thing we are
:21:16. > :21:23.enjoying. Mike has switched on the curiosity of many naturists and one
:21:24. > :21:27.of them came here 18 months ago. Used to live in the area and I saw
:21:28. > :21:33.him sweeping through the grass and it was interesting I had never seen
:21:34. > :21:38.that before. It was obvious he was interested in insects as well. I
:21:39. > :21:43.used to hate insects, I don't know what happened. Now I find them
:21:44. > :21:49.incredibly fascinating. They struck up a firm friendship. Why did the
:21:50. > :21:57.scarecrow win the Nobel Prize? He was outstanding in his own field.
:21:58. > :22:07.Awful. The best ones come out of Christmas crackers. Aaron is now
:22:08. > :22:10.studying for a Masters in wildlife conservation and specialising in
:22:11. > :22:17.bees. It takes a lot to catch them insured and identify them. My
:22:18. > :22:21.favourite one is this, it is quite cute and it is good to get people to
:22:22. > :22:38.connect because there is quite a stay, -- quite a lot of stigma
:22:39. > :22:43.attached. He's got the making of an exceptional entomologist. He's not
:22:44. > :22:48.afraid to make mistakes. He will experiment, notice mistakes, and
:22:49. > :22:55.correct them. He's on the path to being a naturalist. He continues to
:22:56. > :23:02.volunteer at the reserve, teaching the next generation about the
:23:03. > :23:13.wonders of the natural world. We take classes and use the reserve as
:23:14. > :23:23.a teaching resource. Just up there. Not many birds going to be using
:23:24. > :23:27.that box. A couple of the kids noticed the activity and the lesson
:23:28. > :23:42.was about that. Kids notice everything. There is so much he
:23:43. > :23:46.knows that I want to know. He is always willing to teach me about
:23:47. > :23:48.something that he thinks will have value to me. He pops up when he's
:23:49. > :24:08.needed. APPLAUSE. . I'm delighted to say
:24:09. > :24:15.that both Mike and Darren are in the studio. We would love to present you
:24:16. > :24:24.with an award for the excellent work that you do. That was absolutely
:24:25. > :24:39.fantastic. Well done. Master and pupil. We've got to get back to the
:24:40. > :24:45.quiz. I asked you at the top of the sure what you thought this was. This
:24:46. > :24:53.is a large image of an insect but what is it? Sheila has been in touch
:24:54. > :25:04.to say is it the outspread tale of a peacock. Chris thinks it is eggs
:25:05. > :25:16.Benedict. You are all wrong. Many of you, it was this. Let's have a look.
:25:17. > :25:29.It is a green Tiger beetle. Fantastic animals. Merciless
:25:30. > :25:40.killers. They are a fantastic beasts. Let's go on the fantastical
:25:41. > :25:45.beasts. We asked people if they would like to make some artwork for
:25:46. > :25:53.us. We have asked them to come up with a new animal. Here is one, the
:25:54. > :26:05.Al. A suburban species of large old rest on chimney tops. It is not very
:26:06. > :26:13.popular. Let's hope Erica has come up with something more popular. I've
:26:14. > :26:25.realised I could not improve on that so I went for one of the robber
:26:26. > :26:34.flies in the UK. This is my baby. It is an absolute killer. Can capture
:26:35. > :26:45.insects on the wing, paralyse them, suck their insides out, drop them
:26:46. > :26:53.this is the Scottish one. It is fabulous. You're probably right you
:26:54. > :27:03.cannot improve on an animal does that. They've all moustaches, which
:27:04. > :27:10.is very cute. When they've got their flailing pre-they need to be careful
:27:11. > :27:14.-- pray. They released their number dissolves the insight and sucks out
:27:15. > :27:24.the juices. Just brilliant. Let's hear it. You don't need to use your
:27:25. > :27:43.imagination when nature has done it for you. I have this, the Brevideer.
:27:44. > :27:46.It has the body of a deer, the legs are really short because it lives in
:27:47. > :27:54.the shrub lands of Britain. The premise of this is, if we're not
:27:55. > :28:00.careful there will be few trees around. This will have to survive in
:28:01. > :28:10.that environment. It has tasks which it uses to survive by digging
:28:11. > :28:17.through mud. It is useful because people use it to help trees grow
:28:18. > :28:27.back and it spread seeds around. What can we say? This is a
:28:28. > :28:35.scientific treaties. You've invented a whole ecology, not just our
:28:36. > :28:43.species. Fantastic. How can I judge them both. We've got one master of
:28:44. > :28:50.reality. I'm going to give the deer of the future joint top. I will put
:28:51. > :29:00.the robber fly down here because it is a real animal. Big thank you to
:29:01. > :29:06.our guests. Join us tomorrow and also tonight for Springwatch.
:29:07. > :29:11.In Japan, art and life are intrinsically connected.