Life in the Undergrowth — Miniseries

David Attenborough chronicles the lives of invertebrates that dwell on land. He explores the hidden world of Europe's striking leopard slug, a familiar garden inhabitant whose elaborate mating ritual culminates in a strangely poignant final…

In the tranquil waters of a Central Hungarian river, as the sun dips below the horizon in early June, a breathtaking spectacle unfolds. Thousands of mayflies emerge from their larval forms, their delicate wings carrying them into the air fo…

Silk represents a remarkable innovation among invertebrates, serving diverse purposes from the protective sheaths around lacewing eggs to the luminous threads of New Zealand’s glow worms. Yet, spiders have elevated silk-spinning to extraord…

Invertebrates weave intricate connections with plants and other creatures in a vast network of relationships. Newly captured footage reveals the remarkable life of the world's smallest insect – a fairy wasp, barely a quarter of a millimeter…

Invertebrates are not always solitary creatures. The development of true social organization was a late evolutionary adaptation, appearing relatively recently, even after the age of the Tyrannosaurus. The previous episode explored the under…


