Cool movie! nice time-lapse candy :P What type of intervalometer did you use ? did you use this remote infrared one that works with all cameras? website: tempus.bymac.org
Cool movie! nice time-lapse candy :P What type of intervalometer did you use ? did you use this remote infrared one that works with all cameras? website: tempus.bymac.org
Nice time-lapse movie! smooth! Do you know you can make time-lpase movies with any camera with this device: (copy address to browser): tempusALL.bymac.org
That IS annoying XD I liked it better before they moved the progress bar from the player frame into the video itself. Not sure what to do about it yet... I want to keep the annotations out of the video window as much as possible. I have a LOT of videos to change, and I'm concerned that if I go through the trouble to move them all, they'll just make some other change and I'll have to do it all again.. AArgh! I'll have to work on that... Thanks for the note/suggestion =)
@jcmegabyte Yeah that sucks.. Oh I just noticed that the annotations are "normal" if you watch the videos through your channel - the progress bar is fixed to the bottom... Hope I helped :)
It's interesting to study the wide variation between species... So far as I know, all lepidoptera emerge with soft, compacted/crumpled wings which must be expanded and dried/hardened prior to flight. However, this process can happen fairly fast for some species, while others take much longer. In this case, the time lapse greatly sped-up the process. In real-time, expansion took about 5 minutes, with another 60-90 minutes needed to dry them enough to fly. :-)
Watch a Pre-January 8th copy of Inception. Listen closely when the actors say imagine, reality, and safe, or point pistols. You'll hear the words, Loughner, offin' her, part of the word Giffords, and much more. Some say they hear, do it.
And after they figured it out, they went over to tried and EAT him! XD I had to keep pushing them away to prevent them from becoming cannibals! Strange little bugs =)
I usually just copy vids from my "Temporary Internet Files" folder (a Windows system folder which is in your user folder substructure) after watching them. They will be in .FLV format. There are also lots of 3rd party apps and websites which can grab them for you, and event a plug-in for Google Chrome which literally adds a "downlod" button to the video page :-)
When caterpillars reach full size and transform into a pupa, they are no longer physically capable of eating/drinking. It will live entirely on the fats and liquids it has consumed and stored as a caterpillar. Some species start metamorphosis immediately, and emerge in a couple of weeks. Others enter a state of hibernation called "diapause" which may last 5 or more years. Diapaused pupae wait for just the right conditions before developing and emerging to start their life cycle all over. :-)
How long was the process? I have a pea caterpillar and i am looking forward to see it become a butterfly. I just have some peas in it. Will i be needing a small twig so that the caterpillar can hang on when it will become a cocoon?
This caterpillar takes about 4-5 weeks to grow and pupate. Once it's in the pupal form, it will emerge in about 12-15 days. Different species have much different life cycle time periods, so this may not apply to the one you have. Some species will hang and pupate right on the host plant, while others crawl away to look for a hidden safe place (under tree bark, a rock, etc.) to do it. To really know what yours needs you will have to research it specifically. Good luck! :-)
At the tail end of the pupa where it's attached to the branch, is the wad of old skin which it was shedding as it pupated. Sometimes the skin falls to the ground and other times it gets stuck by the tail. Thanks for checking it out! =)
You definitely have to wonder if it hurts or not... or maybe if they have no nerves in the outer layers of skin, it could be just like taking off a thin sweater! XD
Thanks for checking it out :-) My "Rise of the Purple Hairstreaks"video is probably my best life cycle vid, in case you're interested in others like this one. Cheers!
This is really coot! Mother Nature is truly amazing. It never happened this quickly when I was a kid and saw them outside. How much time has lapsed here?
It's interesting how time can hide things from us, and simply speeding it up brings it to light :-) The pupation process shown here took about 90 minutes. After about 12 days, the butterfly had completely developed and was ready to emerge. The emerging process then took about 30 minutes. =)
What were the other caterpillars doing (besides eating)-- were they actually noticing the one that was pupating, or did they just smell something "different"? How good are a caterpillar's eyes?
I got to see a two-tailed swallowtail caterpillar pupate a couple of days ago, and am still not over it! (i uploaded it on here.) I had a second one that pupated this morning, but i was asleep. :(
It's funny that the focus was supposed to be the pupating larva, but the other 2 stole the show! They were roaming all over, but not eating much. I've seen caterpillars literally chew a hole in a fresh pupa's skin, and literally drink all the jiuce! Must be easier than chewing a leaf! XD Those two may have eaten this pupa too, if I hadn't kept chasing them away.. They don't see well, just basic light and maybe color, but they seem to have a good sense of smell/taste. Interesting critters! :-)
The pupae of Peridae are pretty interesting - many species are shaped like a thorn... My latest life cycle documentary (the Sara Orange Tip) is a prime example... Very interesting shape and color/texture. :-) Thanks so much for watching!
That's a good question! Maybe one day we'll be able to get into the minds of insects and see things the way they do, but until then we''ll just have to wonder! :-)
First of all thanks for the amazing upload. Secondly, when I was a kid back in Portugal we found a deep blue cacoon in my room, not sure how it got there anyways we saw it hatched and this beatiful blue butterfly emerged from it and it flew away after a few minute, About a week later we spoted the same, I want to believe it was the same butterfly, flying around in my room, weakly thenm it porceded to die, I actually cried, just thought I would sahre it with you "]
That's pretty unusual to randomly find something like that indoors, although the caterpillars of some butterflies and moths will crawl a long distance from the plant they were eating, to find a secluded place to change into a pupa/cocoon. That might have been how it got there. Most butterflies only live a few weeks (if nothing eats them first) and they can stay in the same area the whole time, so it's quite possible it was the same one. Anyway, thanks for the story! :-)
Thanks for checking it out! This is one of my oldest, but definitely not one of my best lep documentaries. The purple hairstreaks ( v=KyWJlpIchkE ), CA dogface ( v=tPGrmBESSTU ), and Pipevine Swallowtails ( v=u2cE86AA1q0 ) vids are much better :-) Oddly, the Monarch is on of the species I HAVEN'T done yet... they just don't seem to lay eggs around here. Cheers!
jcmegabyte. Great Video!..i thought you and your viewers would like one of my favorties,- The TickleMe Plant Time lapse video. Its a plant that moves like an animal. When you tickle it, it will close its leaves and lower its branches. I grow them with my studentswho run to class to tickle them. Check out the time lapse of the flowers
These were collected locally, in a garden on Senna plants. Many of the caterpillars I raise and document are simply collected from local plants, or by getting the adult butterflies to lay eggs in captivity. :-)
When I was filming this, it seemed like those caterpillars were going to be annoying and int he way the whole time, but they really stole the show! Thanks for watching :-)
Thanks for watching and the nice comment :-) The track is "Traces" by "Technician" (yours truly) and is a free MP3 download from my satellite website in Australia. I'll add a link in the video description to the album page to get you started...
That progress is a bit .. Creepy after my mind! ..
Not only does the worm/Phoebis sennae (I dont know what to call it) trap itself in a pupal/cocoon thing, and becomes liquid? I mean .. Imaging that happan to a human being.. Pretty special.. And after that it becomes a solid shape? (still inside the cocoon/pupal/big-brown-shopping-bag ( :b ) ..
Smart and nice progress, but weird for nature to evolve like that! (-:
Not surprisingly, many horror movie monsters are styled after the life stages of insects because they are so bizarre. The caterpillar-to-chrysalis-to-adult phases of the butterfly's metamorphosis is commonly used in school science study to illustrate just how amazing life is - especially when critters can liquify themselves and then rebuilt their cells into a new creature in just a couple of weeks! Thanks for watching and commenting! :-)
That was definitely an unexpected bonus - I was only expecting to see the pupation and got a whole frame-load of action instead! Thanks for watching and commenting :-)
I used to sit for hours n hours, totally transfixed, & watch my 'grubs' go thru this as a kid .. it's no less amazing now, over 50yrs later! TY for the time lapse .. it shows the process a whole lot clearer & quicker! :)
No matter how many times I see it, it's till amazing.. The Pipevine Swallowtail life cycle vid is probably one of my most complete ones; the purple hairstreaks, california dogface, and white streaked silkmoth life cycles are close seconds, though :-)
Once the caterpillar pupates (metamorposizes into a chrysalis), it pretty-much liquifies into a cellular soup inside. It then completely reforms itself into the new shape of an adult insect, building itself up on a molecular/cellular level. The process takes about 2 weeks. When finished, the butterfly breaks out of the pupal shell and readies itself for the next stage of its life. It's truly an amazing transformation. :-)
I was actually doing him a favor - sometimes the other caterpillars will eat one that is helpless and pupating, so I took him away to finish in safety. If you watch closely you can see a couple of times in the vid where I had to chase away the other ones when they came sniffing around! XD
Just amazing... all life is so unique, so incredible :) we can learn so much about life from the tiniest and simplest of teachers, like this butterfly :) Thanks so much for putting up this video. x
@aerandir4 I dont blame you, you were indoctrinated at a very young age. I dont blame your parents, as they had the same fate as yourself. Please leave a religious debate out of this dude's video. Or I might have to eat your children.
Interesting thing about insect life cycles - they can be both horrific and beautiful at the same time - all depends on your point of view, and sometimes on your mood as well! :-) Thanks so much for watcihng and commenting!
@jcmegabyte It all depends on the insect doing it; butterflies and caterpillars, for instance, are beautiful in what they do, whereas a maggot or parasitic wasp, mosquito, etc. would be disgusting.
Exactly - that twig was clipped from the plant they were eating and had pupated on. I was trying to stage the emerging and wing expansion so that the butterfly would stay in front of the camera. Otherwise it might crawl away to another part of the plant, thus interrupting the shot. It's tricky getting these shots, and I miss a good number of them. :-)
This is one of older vids - it was shot with a JVC MiniDV camcorder, and then individual still images were frame captured from the tape to make the time lapse.
Butterflies can live several months under ideal conditions AND if they don't get eaten by something (which most of the them do). Hard to tell what happens to them once you turn them loose - they're at the mercy of nature. Thanks for watching! :-)
I love your videos, when I was a kid my older cousin used to collect pupates from my yard... and she clipped them in my bedroom's window... I have spent days reading computer books and magazines while waiting for the butterflies to come out...She is a veterinarian now, and I am a computer scientist... =) Thanks from Argentina.
very interesting thanks
prchecker 1 week ago
some really good stuff here
khijasmith 1 week ago
@khijasmith Thanks a bunch for checking it out! =)
jcmegabyte 1 week ago
Cool movie! nice time-lapse candy :P What type of intervalometer did you use ? did you use this remote infrared one that works with all cameras? website: tempus.bymac.org
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Cool movie! nice time-lapse candy :P What type of intervalometer did you use ? did you use this remote infrared one that works with all cameras? website: tempus.bymac.org
bymacorg6 1 month ago
Absolutely beautiful, & the filming is wonderful.
darkallegiance666 2 months ago
@darkallegiance666 Thanks so much for the view and great comment! I'm happy you enjoyed the show =)
TheNatureStation 2 months ago
ITS GONNA BURST!
mesmilez1 2 months ago
*throws a pokeball*
jayjoetube14 3 months ago
First i WAzz Like "Fatie" Then im Like Buetiful
chilito691 3 months ago
amazing....
Ivomenooo 4 months ago 2
Thanks! =)
jcmegabyte 4 months ago
That was so beautiful <3
DKcoolhusna04 4 months ago 2
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! :-)
jcmegabyte 4 months ago
@jcmegabyte
no probs :D
DKcoolhusna04 4 months ago
this is why evolution fails
RespectMyHate 4 months ago
@RespectMyHate
wut...
TheCharDragon 4 months ago
where do you get all of these Caterpillars?
darklordprophecy 4 months ago
These in particular were brought to me by a colleague. Normally I go out into the filed and collect them myself. :-)
jcmegabyte 4 months ago
Its looks he having a orgasm
seebl1 5 months ago
I would guess this is nowhere near as good! XD
jcmegabyte 5 months ago
Nice time-lapse movie! smooth! Do you know you can make time-lpase movies with any camera with this device: (copy address to browser): tempusALL.bymac.org
Works with ANY camera! cool :P
bymacorg9 6 months ago
that 2 worms is so annoying
Peeboontheng 6 months ago 2
Not only annoying, but dangerous to the one that was pupating, too. Several times they stopped and tried to eat him! XD
jcmegabyte 6 months ago
You may want to fix the annotations with the new youtube video layout. The progression bar pops up and blocks the links...
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Practice9Perfection 6 months ago
That IS annoying XD I liked it better before they moved the progress bar from the player frame into the video itself. Not sure what to do about it yet... I want to keep the annotations out of the video window as much as possible. I have a LOT of videos to change, and I'm concerned that if I go through the trouble to move them all, they'll just make some other change and I'll have to do it all again.. AArgh! I'll have to work on that... Thanks for the note/suggestion =)
jcmegabyte 6 months ago
@jcmegabyte Yeah that sucks.. Oh I just noticed that the annotations are "normal" if you watch the videos through your channel - the progress bar is fixed to the bottom... Hope I helped :)
Nice videos btw
Practice9Perfection 6 months ago
what the hell happend to the caterpillar at 1:36
asherleez 6 months ago 2
I had to chase him away with a pair of tweezers - it looked like he was about to eat his buddy for a lunch-time snack! XD
jcmegabyte 6 months ago 2
0:53 his like having buttsex
asherleez 6 months ago
Indeed =) Thanks for checking it out!
JcmdiStockFootage 6 months ago
Really incredible.
XIXNayRXIX 6 months ago
Thanks so much for watching! =)
JcmdiStockFootage 6 months ago
The others are like : Dude , are you alright ? O_O
o2Forbid 6 months ago
You definitely got to wonder if they noticed he looks like he's turning inside-out! XD
jcmegabyte 6 months ago
Its strange, soem butterflies emerge with their wings folded unable to immidatley fly, but this one seems to have fully functionign wings
dalektaliban 7 months ago
It's interesting to study the wide variation between species... So far as I know, all lepidoptera emerge with soft, compacted/crumpled wings which must be expanded and dried/hardened prior to flight. However, this process can happen fairly fast for some species, while others take much longer. In this case, the time lapse greatly sped-up the process. In real-time, expansion took about 5 minutes, with another 60-90 minutes needed to dry them enough to fly. :-)
jcmegabyte 6 months ago
dude that is the best of both worlds, you can chill in the mud munching leaves then pow you can fly slurping at pollen!
caotichelix 7 months ago
I think I'd definitely prefer the flying over the mud XD ..but oh yes it must be an interesting life to see things from so many angles :-)
jcmegabyte 7 months ago
caterpillars: nom nom nom. :3
i love caterpillars and butterflies. they are awesome!
fuzzyrats12 7 months ago
I'm happy you enjoyed the show! Thanks so much for stopping by =)
jcmegabyte 7 months ago
@jcmegabyte now prob! i had so much fun watching it.
fuzzyrats12 7 months ago
the other caterpillar's like "heeeheeeheeheeheeeheeehee" every time he runs across the branch while the other one's like "OMG THIS FCKIN HURTS!"
Alimaleo 8 months ago
The really weird thing is that those ones running by would occasionally stop and try to take a bite out of the one that was pupating! XD
jcmegabyte 8 months ago
this is disgusting
AbdullahAlwakil 8 months ago
It's no wonder that many SciFi horror movie monsters are designed after insect life cycles! XD
jcmegabyte 8 months ago 4
@AbdullahAlwakil it's natural... it's not disgusting. Human beeings are disgusting.
AntiPop4Ever 7 months ago
does this hurt?
B1GMON3YJR 9 months ago
It sure looks like it would, but who knows... maybe this is a natural and easy for them as it is for us to change our clothes :-)
jcmegabyte 9 months ago 2
@B1GMON3YJR :D Good question :D
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Watch a Pre-January 8th copy of Inception. Listen closely when the actors say imagine, reality, and safe, or point pistols. You'll hear the words, Loughner, offin' her, part of the word Giffords, and much more. Some say they hear, do it.
jamestargetedindiv 10 months ago
His friends are like "WTF are u doin ben..?"
SiCx88 10 months ago 3
And after they figured it out, they went over to tried and EAT him! XD I had to keep pushing them away to prevent them from becoming cannibals! Strange little bugs =)
JcmdiStockFootage 10 months ago
How can i download this video?
praveen4404 10 months ago
I usually just copy vids from my "Temporary Internet Files" folder (a Windows system folder which is in your user folder substructure) after watching them. They will be in .FLV format. There are also lots of 3rd party apps and websites which can grab them for you, and event a plug-in for Google Chrome which literally adds a "downlod" button to the video page :-)
jcmegabyte 10 months ago
Doesn't they need get to eat foods during the process of becoming butterfly? 4-5 weeks is way too long if they don't get foods nor drinks
TanJianWei92 11 months ago 2
When caterpillars reach full size and transform into a pupa, they are no longer physically capable of eating/drinking. It will live entirely on the fats and liquids it has consumed and stored as a caterpillar. Some species start metamorphosis immediately, and emerge in a couple of weeks. Others enter a state of hibernation called "diapause" which may last 5 or more years. Diapaused pupae wait for just the right conditions before developing and emerging to start their life cycle all over. :-)
jcmegabyte 11 months ago
@jcmegabyte , Sounds hard when you try to explain , but it's interesting for cycles of caterpillars to pupa and lastly to butterfly :)
TanJianWei92 11 months ago
How long was the process? I have a pea caterpillar and i am looking forward to see it become a butterfly. I just have some peas in it. Will i be needing a small twig so that the caterpillar can hang on when it will become a cocoon?
91Sannie 11 months ago
This caterpillar takes about 4-5 weeks to grow and pupate. Once it's in the pupal form, it will emerge in about 12-15 days. Different species have much different life cycle time periods, so this may not apply to the one you have. Some species will hang and pupate right on the host plant, while others crawl away to look for a hidden safe place (under tree bark, a rock, etc.) to do it. To really know what yours needs you will have to research it specifically. Good luck! :-)
jcmegabyte 11 months ago
When the caterpillar is becoming a cacoon what is thatgrayish bubbly thing that comes out of it?
CollaborationSeries 11 months ago
At the tail end of the pupa where it's attached to the branch, is the wad of old skin which it was shedding as it pupated. Sometimes the skin falls to the ground and other times it gets stuck by the tail. Thanks for checking it out! =)
jcmegabyte 11 months ago
Metapod, use harden!
JennBabiey 11 months ago
that looks painful to me
monsterprisoner 1 year ago 2
You definitely have to wonder if it hurts or not... or maybe if they have no nerves in the outer layers of skin, it could be just like taking off a thin sweater! XD
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
The other caterpillars are looking at the pupating one like they're thinking "OMG! What's happening to Joe?!"
Ez3monie 1 year ago
Not only that, but they tried to eat him, too! XD
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte That's pretty disturbing. It must suck being a caterpillar.
Ez3monie 1 year ago
life is f***ing beautfiul
JENNYLEE373 1 year ago 12
Thanks for checking it out :-) My "Rise of the Purple Hairstreaks"video is probably my best life cycle vid, in case you're interested in others like this one. Cheers!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
This is really coot! Mother Nature is truly amazing. It never happened this quickly when I was a kid and saw them outside. How much time has lapsed here?
PlayIt4MeAgainSam 1 year ago
It's interesting how time can hide things from us, and simply speeding it up brings it to light :-) The pupation process shown here took about 90 minutes. After about 12 days, the butterfly had completely developed and was ready to emerge. The emerging process then took about 30 minutes. =)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
plant got a boner from being touched
ospray911 1 year ago
What were the other caterpillars doing (besides eating)-- were they actually noticing the one that was pupating, or did they just smell something "different"? How good are a caterpillar's eyes?
I got to see a two-tailed swallowtail caterpillar pupate a couple of days ago, and am still not over it! (i uploaded it on here.) I had a second one that pupated this morning, but i was asleep. :(
flarenow 1 year ago
It's funny that the focus was supposed to be the pupating larva, but the other 2 stole the show! They were roaming all over, but not eating much. I've seen caterpillars literally chew a hole in a fresh pupa's skin, and literally drink all the jiuce! Must be easier than chewing a leaf! XD Those two may have eaten this pupa too, if I hadn't kept chasing them away.. They don't see well, just basic light and maybe color, but they seem to have a good sense of smell/taste. Interesting critters! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Fast caterpillars sound like Zoooooooooom NOM NOM NOM Zoooooooooooom
Avisionred1 1 year ago
Yea it's funny - I was focused on the one that was metamorphosizing, but the other ones stole the show! XD Thanks for checking it out =)
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taylor2001 1 year ago
1:10 EVOLVE !!!!!!!
cyanman123 1 year ago
Yep! Thanks for checking it out!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
looks like magic to me... :)) awesome!!!
MJDiscography 1 year ago
Indeed - it is the magic of nature! :-) Thanks for checking it out!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
amazing very beautiful
keesvangelis 1 year ago
Some very interesting things these little guys do! Thanks for checking it out :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Extraordinary how the pupate is shaped for this type of butterfly. Thanks for that beautiful video :D.
teeter444 1 year ago
The pupae of Peridae are pretty interesting - many species are shaped like a thorn... My latest life cycle documentary (the Sara Orange Tip) is a prime example... Very interesting shape and color/texture. :-) Thanks so much for watching!
JcmdiStockFootage 1 year ago
wich program you use to make this?
boludovos 1 year ago
I used several programs, including AnimatorDV+ to capture the frames, and Windows Movie Maker to edit and render the final video :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
caterpillar#1 evolving to a Caterpillar.
caterpillar#2 only noms on the leaves :D
MLTNA7X 1 year ago
You might be surprised to know that one the caterpillar also tried to take a few bites of the one that was changing too! XD
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
You see the plant grow too :P
Mrskilletzero 1 year ago
That plant really stole the show! XD thanks for checking it out!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
wonderful!! thanks!
kitebabe05 1 year ago
Thanks so much for watching! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
that was HOT
shroomingnewman 1 year ago 5
Thanks for checking it out!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
do u think the butterfly remember being a catepillar?
smowl666 1 year ago
That's a good question! Maybe one day we'll be able to get into the minds of insects and see things the way they do, but until then we''ll just have to wonder! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Okay quick random comment :]
First of all thanks for the amazing upload. Secondly, when I was a kid back in Portugal we found a deep blue cacoon in my room, not sure how it got there anyways we saw it hatched and this beatiful blue butterfly emerged from it and it flew away after a few minute, About a week later we spoted the same, I want to believe it was the same butterfly, flying around in my room, weakly thenm it porceded to die, I actually cried, just thought I would sahre it with you "]
RandomMiggy 1 year ago
That's pretty unusual to randomly find something like that indoors, although the caterpillars of some butterflies and moths will crawl a long distance from the plant they were eating, to find a secluded place to change into a pupa/cocoon. That might have been how it got there. Most butterflies only live a few weeks (if nothing eats them first) and they can stay in the same area the whole time, so it's quite possible it was the same one. Anyway, thanks for the story! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Awesome! It's nice to see different species of butterflies go through the process! I've only raised monarch butterflies before.
reaperette 1 year ago
Thanks for checking it out! This is one of my oldest, but definitely not one of my best lep documentaries. The purple hairstreaks ( v=KyWJlpIchkE ), CA dogface ( v=tPGrmBESSTU ), and Pipevine Swallowtails ( v=u2cE86AA1q0 ) vids are much better :-) Oddly, the Monarch is on of the species I HAVEN'T done yet... they just don't seem to lay eggs around here. Cheers!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Very nice! Thank you.
KonServGrammy 1 year ago
My pleasure - thanks for the view and kind words! =)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
jcmegabyte. Great Video!..i thought you and your viewers would like one of my favorties,- The TickleMe Plant Time lapse video. Its a plant that moves like an animal. When you tickle it, it will close its leaves and lower its branches. I grow them with my studentswho run to class to tickle them. Check out the time lapse of the flowers
ceil20610 1 year ago
Where did u get the caterpillars?
derf1031 1 year ago
These were collected locally, in a garden on Senna plants. Many of the caterpillars I raise and document are simply collected from local plants, or by getting the adult butterflies to lay eggs in captivity. :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
1:37 to 1:4.... cuteness of the other CATERPILLAR!! LOL it's so cute!!
Jendrax2006 1 year ago
When I was filming this, it seemed like those caterpillars were going to be annoying and int he way the whole time, but they really stole the show! Thanks for watching :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
one of the most disturbing and yet beautiful things I have ever seen
radguitar1 1 year ago 2
Nature is pretty strange like that sometimes :-) Thanks for watching!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
I really like this vid, and the song also.
Where can I download the song please? :)
NYtassu 1 year ago
Thanks for watching and the nice comment :-) The track is "Traces" by "Technician" (yours truly) and is a free MP3 download from my satellite website in Australia. I'll add a link in the video description to the album page to get you started...
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte Much appreciated :)
NYtassu 1 year ago
ughhhhhhhhhhhhh.WTF~
waltermyerspark 1 year ago
That progress is a bit .. Creepy after my mind! ..
Not only does the worm/Phoebis sennae (I dont know what to call it) trap itself in a pupal/cocoon thing, and becomes liquid? I mean .. Imaging that happan to a human being.. Pretty special.. And after that it becomes a solid shape? (still inside the cocoon/pupal/big-brown-shopping-bag ( :b ) ..
Smart and nice progress, but weird for nature to evolve like that! (-:
Nice video btw, congrats!
Johanaabye 1 year ago
Not surprisingly, many horror movie monsters are styled after the life stages of insects because they are so bizarre. The caterpillar-to-chrysalis-to-adult phases of the butterfly's metamorphosis is commonly used in school science study to illustrate just how amazing life is - especially when critters can liquify themselves and then rebuilt their cells into a new creature in just a couple of weeks! Thanks for watching and commenting! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
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Johanaabye 1 year ago
I love that you can see the plant movements clearly in this aswell. Brilliant
lullylewj 1 year ago 2
That was definitely an unexpected bonus - I was only expecting to see the pupation and got a whole frame-load of action instead! Thanks for watching and commenting :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
just wow.
barushkan 1 year ago
Thanks for watching :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
I used to sit for hours n hours, totally transfixed, & watch my 'grubs' go thru this as a kid .. it's no less amazing now, over 50yrs later! TY for the time lapse .. it shows the process a whole lot clearer & quicker! :)
NoDraMuzz 1 year ago
No matter how many times I see it, it's till amazing.. The Pipevine Swallowtail life cycle vid is probably one of my most complete ones; the purple hairstreaks, california dogface, and white streaked silkmoth life cycles are close seconds, though :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte tell me exactly whts qoinq on inside tha cacoon .
dolo013 1 year ago
Once the caterpillar pupates (metamorposizes into a chrysalis), it pretty-much liquifies into a cellular soup inside. It then completely reforms itself into the new shape of an adult insect, building itself up on a molecular/cellular level. The process takes about 2 weeks. When finished, the butterfly breaks out of the pupal shell and readies itself for the next stage of its life. It's truly an amazing transformation. :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte Yes, no matter how many times you see it. I couldn't agree more.
loveyoutodeathbut 1 year ago
nature is pretty fucking amazing... but why in the world did you cut his branch and move him? id be a pretty pissed off butterfly
swicknire 1 year ago
I was actually doing him a favor - sometimes the other caterpillars will eat one that is helpless and pupating, so I took him away to finish in safety. If you watch closely you can see a couple of times in the vid where I had to chase away the other ones when they came sniffing around! XD
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Just amazing... all life is so unique, so incredible :) we can learn so much about life from the tiniest and simplest of teachers, like this butterfly :) Thanks so much for putting up this video. x
lemonhoney11 1 year ago 2
Thanks so much for the view and great comment! Glad you enjoyed :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
how does that work?? Oh well God made everything special.
TheCanadamerican 1 year ago
Insect metamorphosis is really pretty amazing - even more so when sped-up a bit so we can really see it. Thanks for watching! =)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
How can any sane human being believe in evolution after watching this?
aerandir4 1 year ago
@aerandir4 I dont blame you, you were indoctrinated at a very young age. I dont blame your parents, as they had the same fate as yourself. Please leave a religious debate out of this dude's video. Or I might have to eat your children.
mmmmmarcus 1 year ago
Very unique
I think I'm gonna Subscribe! :D
Windskar88 1 year ago
Thanks so much for watching - glad you enjoyed! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
This aint disgusting. This is beautiful.
ImNotGhay 1 year ago 17
Interesting thing about insect life cycles - they can be both horrific and beautiful at the same time - all depends on your point of view, and sometimes on your mood as well! :-) Thanks so much for watcihng and commenting!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte It all depends on the insect doing it; butterflies and caterpillars, for instance, are beautiful in what they do, whereas a maggot or parasitic wasp, mosquito, etc. would be disgusting.
george77772moons 1 year ago
This is just priceless!
Cronopioslover274 1 year ago
Thanks so much ! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte This is certainly a Life Miracle!
How did you tape the last part? The twig looks plucked from the tree branch. Thank to you for posting this video.
Cronopioslover274 1 year ago
Exactly - that twig was clipped from the plant they were eating and had pupated on. I was trying to stage the emerging and wing expansion so that the butterfly would stay in front of the camera. Otherwise it might crawl away to another part of the plant, thus interrupting the shot. It's tricky getting these shots, and I miss a good number of them. :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte You did a great video, after all!
Have a nice one!
Cronopioslover274 1 year ago
Never really seen a video like this, great video!!
guynamedoliver 1 year ago
It's sorta like National Geographic, or Discovery, but much less well known :-) Thanks for watching and commenting! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Thanks so much for watching and commenting! =)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Diggin this music
Lepidop517 1 year ago
Thanks! Glad you liked my music :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Classic.
ParallaxFilm 1 year ago
Thanks!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
shot on what camera?
Feverant 1 year ago
This is one of older vids - it was shot with a JVC MiniDV camcorder, and then individual still images were frame captured from the tape to make the time lapse.
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Mamma mia che bello!
Fa uno strano effetto.
puzzelepunes 1 year ago
So glad you enjoyed - thanks for watching! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Not sure how many days that creature had but I loved watching it start its life. Thanks for subs.
megchristianfan 1 year ago
Butterflies can live several months under ideal conditions AND if they don't get eaten by something (which most of the them do). Hard to tell what happens to them once you turn them loose - they're at the mercy of nature. Thanks for watching! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
you are a teacher, great show video
cosmolider 1 year ago
Well, not officially, but I like to think I bring new experiences and learning to the world, in my own way. Thanks so much for watching! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
A stupendous vision! Great video..Thanks for sharing.
enya761 1 year ago
So nice to hear you enjoyed - thanks for watching! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Reminds me of "Silence of the Lambs"
Cool Video!
ff144 2 years ago
It's funny how that one movie (and one really weird dude) cast such a large, dark shadow on butterflies and moths! XD
Thanks for checking it out =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Two words: Bug Spray
Drifter0001 2 years ago
With the caterpillars' movement sped up they almost look like tiny snakes.
Aumichan 2 years ago
They're definitely trippy to watch in high speed - especially when they're busy crawling all over the place like those were! Thanks for watching :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
very, very good :-)
didixdeux 2 years ago
So glad you enjoyed - thanks for watching! =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
I love your videos, when I was a kid my older cousin used to collect pupates from my yard... and she clipped them in my bedroom's window... I have spent days reading computer books and magazines while waiting for the butterflies to come out...She is a veterinarian now, and I am a computer scientist... =) Thanks from Argentina.
BR177 2 years ago
Thanks so much for watching and the great comment - glad to hear you and your cousin are successful, too! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Simply EXCELLENT!
Regards
Balaji
Jbalaji 2 years ago
Thanks so much for watching and the great comment! Happy new year! :-)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
mine eats aple XP since its winter 3:
mines gonna b a moth im giving it wormth food and some space yet mines jst a lil baby :O
MegaGamePlayers 2 years ago
Do you know what species it is?
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
thanks for posting this.
Seriously makes u think
WheresMySoul 2 years ago
So glad you enjoyed =) Happy holidays and new year!
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
Verry Vool Vid
gategrass 2 years ago
Thanks so much! Happy holidays and new year =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago
!✿❀✿ஜீ✿Beautifull nature!!!✿❀✿ஜீ✿
Seus videos são lindos!!!✿❀✿ஜீ✿;-)
sussukhan 2 years ago
Thanks so much for watching =)
jcmegabyte 2 years ago