Films by LEPIDOPTERIST.ORG:

Life of Gulf Fritillary - metamorphosis

This film depicts life history and metamorphosis of Gulf Fritillary 
nymphalid butterfly,Agraulis vanillae. The film is collaboration 
betweenlepidopterist.org and jcmdi.com.
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The Life of Monarch Butterfly
This video set to Argentinean waltz music features monarch 
butterfly, Danaus plexippus.

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Monarch Feasting

Set to Cuban jazz music.
This film shows Monarch (Danaus plexippus) caterpillar consuming a leaf.

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Pipe-vine swallowtail caterpillars  
Battus polydamas caterpillars devouring Aristolochia plant
 
The Fight of Butterflies
Zebra longwing butterfly, Heliconius charitonius, 
is featured in the film set to Narcotango music.  
Some sequences show males fight over female pupa
before a female even emerges.  They are trying to be 
the first upon her emergence, so they guard her 
against competitors. 
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Imperial Silk Moth Caterpillar - the Final Journey
This video set to music of Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla, 

shows how a caterpillar of Imperial Moth, Eacles imperialis, turns 

into adult. 
The caterpillar travels to pupate in the ground 

avoiding many obstacles and dangers.  
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Mariposas de Patagonia

Butterflies of Patagonia, specifically around 

Bariloche, Argentina, are featured. Background music is tango Mariposita. 


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Shocky the spider learns to tango, Lesson 1

Spinybacked orbweaver spider (Gasteracantha cancriformis )
catches Fritty (a Gulf Fritillary butterfly), but looses her to a competitor. 
Anthropomorphizing insects to Astor Piazzolla's tango music.

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Sierra Vista Social Club
Insect community of Sierra Vista, Arizona interacting

at light.  Set to Buena Vista Social Club salsa music.
 
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Moths and other nocturnal insect of Costa Rica
Action takes place at night in Costa Rica. 
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Lepidoptera mating





Various videos of mating butterflies and moths





Butterflies Fighting



 
 
 
Lepidoptera films made by others


Le Papillon
by Philippe Muyl, 2002. Watch movie trailer:









Time-lapse photography of metamorphosis
graphers' point of view.  View a fragment: 
by jcmegabyte
Play a sample clip: metamorphosis of Cloudless Sulfur, Phoebis sennae






Microcosmos
French film made in 1996 depicting life from micorscopic










Japanese Caterpillar tea commercial








Japanese drink commercial
Butterfly vs. Praying Mantis









Monarch caterpillar hatches







Sphinx moth feeding at flower
High speed film records movement in slow motion







Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland
Animation of Lewis Caroll's book (fragment)