SOME of the filming for the latest Sir David Attenborough TV series took place in Somerset.

Wild Isles showcases some of the marvels of Britain and Ireland, which boast some of the most diverse wildlife and beautiful landscapes on Earth.

Episode 1 on BBC One and iPlayer on Sunday (March 12) at 7pm features footage from North Somerset.

The unique behaviour of the lords and ladies plant was captured on camera in Tyntesfield, near Wraxall, and Hutton Wood, Weston-super-Mare.

This amazing plant heats up and releases a foul-smelling scent that is irresistable to flies, tricking them to enter its flower.

The fly lands on a slippery leaf and slides down, becoming trapped inside. The plant keeps it hostage before showering the fly with pollen then allowing it to escape.

The team had to make tiny windows in the sides of the flowers to film the structures within, while thermal cameras captured glowing images of plants heating up.

It required carefully timed observation, as each plant heats up for just four hours before it starts to wilt the following day.

Camerawoman Katie Mayhew said: “Surprisingly the ripe flowers only stayed hot for a few hours during their life cycle and at their hottest they really did smell - you could even feel the heat by touch.

“Capturing the colour to thermal transitional shots was a complicated task, like filming a puzzle.

“First, we captured a series of images on a low light colour camera which we then could stitch together to create a very large image.

“Then we had to capture exactly to the sequence of images with the thermal camera so that the overall stitched images from the colour and thermal would match.

“These master images could then be transitioned from colour to thermal to take the viewer from what we humans see and what really is going on with the flower.”

In Episode 4, there is a sequence with toads migrating/mating that was filmed in Winscombe roads and pond.

The five-part Wild Isles series was filmed over the course of three years, investigating how our woodland, grassland, freshwater and ocean habitats support wildlife of all kinds.

Using the very latest technology, each episode will capture dramatic and new behaviour across the British Isles, from battling butterflies to mighty killer whales on the hunt.