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...adults, the wingless males, which develop first, visit the growing females, fertilise them and, as their dying act, tunnel out of the fig. When the females grow to maturity, they work their way out of their growth chamber, picking up pollen from other flowers, and exit through the holes left by their male siblings. Seeds develop in the pollinated flowers, the fig matures...

...adults. It’s tremendous! The programme they made about clearing plastic out of the ocean was as hard hitting as you could possibly get, and I simply have never understood why the broadcasters think it’s alright to tell children about these things but somehow adults can’t deal with it. What is good about programmes like The Octonauts and Hugh’s Fish Fight? Well,...