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In her treehouse den, Jess is looking at beetles. One in four animals on earth is a beetle, so there are plenty to look at. She has a close look at their hard shells, their sensitive antennae and the fact that they all have wings, though they do not all choose to fly.

March 2017
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In her treehouse den, Jess is looking at slugs. They are closely related to snails, and if you look carefully you can see where their shell would grow.
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In her treehouse den, Jess is looking at ladybirds. They are probably our best-known beetle and they come with varying numbers of spots from two right up to twenty.
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In her treehouse den, Jess is looking at caterpillars. Their main job is eating and they grow bigger and bigger until it is time to wrap themselves up and go to sleep in a chrysalis. Jess has one and is waiting for it to hatch.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a snail adventure.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a water boatman adventure.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a centipede adventure.
Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a spider adventure.
February 2017
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a moth adventure.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on an ant adventure.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a harvestman adventure.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on an earwig adventure.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a bee adventure. In her treehouse den Jess has a section from a beehive and watches the bees inside it. She shows how the bees fill cells with honey, spots the queen bee and has a look at the developing larvae, noticing how each bee has a different job wi...
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a fly adventure. In her treehouse den Jess has a close look at flies. Though not the most popular of minibeasts, they are nonetheless fascinating. Jess shows their life cycle from egg to adult fly.
January 2017
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a woodlouse adventure. In her treehouse den Jess has a close look at some woodlice. Related to lobsters, but living far away from the sea, their armoured shells keep them safe in the garden.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a pond skater adventure. Jess is down by her pond watching pond skaters. They are amazing little creatures that are able to walk on the surface of the water and hunt small insects.
June 2016
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a worm adventure. In her treehouse den, Jess has a close look at worms: how amazingly they move by getting longer and shorter, eating their way through the soil.
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Jess is down by her pond watching magical minibeasts - dragonflies. She explains how they are designed to be such great fliers. She also has a look at a baby dragonfly - a dragonfly nymph - which lives at the bottom of the pond.
May 2016
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a millipede adventure.
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Feelers out - what's about? Join Jess and her friends as they go on a butterfly adventure.
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