A short animation made using cinema 4d...it was finished in 2003 and by the creator of AmateurIllustrator.com - http://www.amateurillustrator.com

Golden Orb Spider eats a wasp and a beetle

This video set to Argentinean waltz music features monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. Filmed by www.lepidopterist.org

Florida Butterflies: tiger, giant, zebra swallowtails, gulf fritillary mating and metamorphosis, zebra longwing heliconius mating, cloudless sulphur, long-tailed skipper. Filmed by www.lepidopterist.org

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:30 pm, MacMillan Theatre Bapang Sisir, traditional (fragment) Annette Sanger, Director Keith Akada, Irene Apanovitch, Melissa Brown, Chen Po-Chun, Christina Hough, Liya Huang, Christine Hudson, Francesca Inglese, Joyce Kim, James Kippen, Lewis Kirsch-Spring, Soo Anne Mahabit, Sean Mallinen, Petra Molnarova, Keiko Ninonmia, Lee Parkin, Phil Parry, Dan Pencer, David Pereira, Mindy Postoff, Adrian Rigopulos, Anthony Rinaldi, Ligeia Smith, Vincent Spilchuck, Lyadia Vamvouras, Kelly-Anne Vander Meer, Steven Viera, Tavis Weir, Aleysia Whitmore.

A collection of bloopers from the scrapped project, Chase Kliber's Butterfly.

This film depicts life history and metamorphosis of Gulf Fritillary nymphalid butterfly, Agraulis vanillae. The film is a collaboration between lepidopterist.org and JCMDI.COM

Various insects socializing at light at Sierra Vista Mountains, Arizona. Set to the salsa music of Buena Vista Social Club (Cuba). Filmed by www.lepidopterist.org

Butterflies of Patagonia, specifically around Bariloche, Argentina, are featured. Background music is tango Mariposita. Filmed by www.lepidopterist.org

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. For more about butterfly and moth research, visit www.lepidopterist.org

Spiders I've met recently. Music: "Tibetan Tango" by Boris Grebenshikov and Aquarium. Filmed by www.lepidopterist.org

Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, feeding on milkweed to cuban music. Filmed by www.lepidopterist.org

A UF Lepidopterist discusses how to start a butterfly garden for your home.

================================ Chopin Berceuse in D Flat Major Op.57 Walter Gieseking,piano. ================================ Related information: Walter Wilhelm Gieseking (November 5, 1895 -- October 26, 1956) was a French-German pianist and composer. Biography Walter Gieseking is said to have been a natural and intuitive pianist. According to legend, he never practised except in his own mind. He apparently would study the score, imagine playing it, and then perform it flawlessly. His habit of spending hours in total silence as he pored over scores is said to have frustrated his wife greatly. Born in Lyon, France, Gieseking was largely self-taught as a pianist until he studied at the conservatorium in Hanover. He studied with Karl Leimer, whom he had written a book with. He remained in Germany during World War II, and also performed sometimes in Nazi-occupied France; these things led to accusations of collaboration with the Nazi Party. A number of his concerts, particularly in the United States, had to be cancelled because of protests against him. Eventually he was cleared of any wrongdoing by an Allied court. He died in London during a recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 15 for HMV. He had completed the first three movements and, the following day, was due to record the fourth. He died during the night. HMV released the unfinished recording. Gieseking had a very wide repertoire, ranging from the core works by Ludwig van Beethoven through to the concertos of Sergei Rachmaninoff (the composer was impressed with his traversal of the Third) and more modern works by the likes of Ferruccio Busoni, Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, and the lesser-known Italian Goffredo Petrassi. He gave the premiere of the Piano Concerto by Hans Pfitzner in 1923. Today, though, he is primarily remembered as one of the great interpreters of Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel. He recorded the complete piano works of Debussy. His recordings of Debussy's Préludes, done in 1953 and 1955, have been re-released by EMI Classics in their "Great Recordings of the Century" collection. Many of his later recordings were made in both monaural and stereo. Music and Arts has released Gieseking's historic 1944 stereo recording of Beethoven's "Emperor" piano concerto. Although some of his recordings - particularly the live ones - are erratic and riddled with wrong notes, when Gieseking was in form he exhibited a superb technical equipment.[1] Gieseking was also an amateur lepidopterist. References ^ Dean Elder, Pianists at Play, Kahn & Averill, 1989 Bibliography Gieseking, Walter, So wurde ich Pianist (autobiography), 1963 Leimer, Karl and Gieseking, Walter The Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfection, 1932 —, Rhythmics, Dynamics, Pedal and Other Problems of Piano Playing, 1938 Schonberg, Harold C., The Great Pianists, 1963 External links Youngrok Lee's appreciation pages Biography Recordings & Discography - Walter Gieseking(1) from J.S.Bach to Debussy Recordings & Discography - Walter Gieseking(2) from Dvorák to Trapp BBC artist biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gieseking ================================ *Note:Support the artist, their families and their legacy by purchasing their music.

Behind an unassuming ranch house in East Central Indiana lurks a mad lepidopterist who appears intent on breeding Danaus plexippus in a conspiracy of world domination! (Warning: contains brief sequence of Papilionoidea passion.)

Zach just chillin'

Zebra longwing butterfly, Heliconius charitonius, is featured in the film set to Narcotango music. Some sequences show males fight over female pupa before it emerges. They guard her against competitors. More information at http://www.lepidopterist.org/Entomofun.htm egg larva caterpillar Lepidoptera Nymphalidae tango butterflies competition nectar insect wildlife

a.rawlings reads 537neon/Narcolepsy from Wide slumber for lepidopterists at Zaoem Polypoetry Festival in Ghent, Belgium.

Video installation created by Lisa Swarna Khanna for The Lepidopterists exhibition in the St Pancras Church Crypt, London, UK in July 2007.

Moth Hell- Mothello, a simple, light-hearted moth gets stuck between a rock and hard place when his wings suddenly disappear and he can't reach his light that he thinks he needs to get by. The mannerisms of a moth have always seemed strange, sporadic and above all interesting to me. Though it is quite apparent, it is still a mystery to lepidopterists (moth and butterfly scientists) as to why moths are so attracted to light. Phototaxis is an organism's automatic movement toward or away from light. Moths are positively phototactic meaning they naturally feel the need to move toward a light source rather than away. Dependency on entities outside of oneself (though it shows trust to some degree) is unstable and weak. The concept of Moth Hell is based on this personal belief that one must entirely consume something in order to function correctly. The story of Mothello realizes the solution to Moth Hell. His addiction to light that seemed impossible to shake is resolved when Mothello matter-of-factly changes his mind. The dependency is a simple mental issue rather than a physical need. Moth Hell takes place on a make-shift theatre stage with cardboard props that pop in and out of the set from time to time. I wanted to experiment with making cuts from shot to shot without actually moving a camera or the set, so clearly a theatre stage made sense. The transitions from Mothello's close ups to full views of Moth Hell are done by quick prop placing and changes in music. I sang the three part harmony song a cappella style to force the audience to listen to the words; frankly if you can't hear the words to the story then none of this makes any sense. A few people have asked me, why Mothello never gets his wings back? Basically, it's because this story is not about Mothello's wings. His wings were merely a convenient means of transportation to the light that he thought he needed. He doesn't need his wings if he doesn't need that light, and that's the whole point. My animation 'brings to light' the concept of what hell would be like for a moth, and how even a moth can overcome it. Most of us have been stuck in our own personal Moth Hell before. It's amazing what a simple change of mind can do. - Ross Murray

This is a short video of a Large Yellow Underwing moth feeding on a sugaring solution that we made. The idea is to coat this solution on to several tree trunks at about chest height (do this about dusk time). Then you simply wait for the moths to fly to the solution! This was out first try :)

Angela Rawlings reads from Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists at the third international Nýhil poetry festival in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Heres the moth i found in my bedroom, its gold and brown and ad shiney as the real thing! its maybe a half inch in size and is an ugly little guy with only a face a moth-er could love,but they said the same thing about me,so wtf! =] If you can tell me the name of it, id be real grateful! i know this isnt a normal video for me, and i have some things coming soon :) Enjoy!!

inspired by Angela Rawlings' Wide slumber for lepidopterists.

We caught three in the trap, and here they are resting on the hedge in the morning! The other two moths after are a Buff Tip and a rather pretty Scarce Silver Lines.