The rotten side of autumn from the BBC archive
Post categories: Clips from the archive
|16:50 UK time, Thursday, 9 September 2010
Decay isn't exactly the cheeriest concept around. But as these clips from the BBC archive show, it plays an integral part in the circle of life.
Stag beetles go head-to-head over a rotten log in this clip from Living Britain.
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Alan Titchmarsh investigates how fungi reproduce in damp woodlands for The Nature of Britain.
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Leaf litter is home to a teeming underworld of creepy crawlies as Living Britain discovers.
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And finally, sexton beetles take advantage of autumn's casualties, burying their eggs beneath corpses. Not a clip for hedgehog fans!
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Come back for more investigations of autumn's rotten side right here next week.
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