It gives me extra enjoyment to know that so many people will have access to see it from all over the world for a long time to come :-) Thanks a bunch for visiting and the kind words!
It gives me extra enjoyment to know so many people will have access to see it all over the world for a long time to come :-) Thanks a bunch for stopping by!
I was searching for a butterfly video to help with a tile making project and came upon your elegant depiction of the life cycle of the Sara Orange-Tip. Beautiful!
Thanks for checking it out! This is one of our most common butterflies in springtime - especially in the mountain canyons. Always cool to see them out early as one of the first butterflies to emerge in spring :-)
Very interesting , I would have never known all the things it goes through to become the butterfly I love. I am amazed at the work you do. Thank you! Lauren
Thanks again for all the attention and kind words! Unfortunately, there isn't much money in what I do, so I do it mostly because I enjoy it. I do get the occasional request to license footage for commercial use, but the majority of my works are used for free under my free-use for non-profit purposes policy. Teachers are always encouraged to download and use my material for instruction, and I do make low-cost hardcopies available for those without general internet access. Cheers!
...if I only that that kind of equipment and budget! I've been working on this project so long (2+ years) that some of the older footage was shot with my old JVC MiniDV camcorder at SD resolution, which is still surprisingly decent even compared to HD - especially for macro work. Anyway - thanks for watching and the great comment! =)
Thanks for the nice comment! I used a wide variety of equipment for this vid, and it took over two years to get it all... I think it's still a bit incomplete though, and there are other parts I would like to add, if I can ever get the shots! :-)
beautiful butterfly and its colors .. I'm fascinated by this vision and the story, becouse the nature is amazing! fantastic to see this metamorphosis congratulations for your work bye mandhise*
Amazing! Congrats on achieving this! Really shocking when they transform from caterpillars to...mmm... ¿chrysalis?. I thought they build those structures, but thanks to your video now I know they made them from their own bodies, really amazing! Thanks for sharing your great job to all of us. Regards!
You're not kidding - these critters are about as alien as you can get compared to us! Some of these life cycle vids do take a very long time to complete, but fortunately for me, a lot of it is waiting around for stuff to happen. It took a few weeks to do the first part, then I had to wait f a couple of years for them to start developing and finally emerge, which took another couple of weeks. All along the way I was collecting other bits and pieces in the field :-)
While I usually try to avoid putting anything extra into the video footage itself, I do plan to add some descriptive annotations and possibly some timeline info as well. It would be tricky to add a counter since the time scale is VERY choppy... Some of these clips represent events lasting only a few minutes, while others took weeks, and the pupal diapause (during which nothing happened at all) lasted nearly 2 years! Anyway thanks for checking it out! :-)
That was one sequence I wish I had for these guys too. I do have three more Orange Tip chrysalises which didn't emerge this year (3rd year they've skipped now!) Maybe I can get that footage some day... Orange Tips are members of the Peridae family, along with Sulphurs although the Sulphurs are typically segregated into the subfamily Coliadinae. :-)
