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Butterflies and Insect Vision
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Biology, butterflies, and violin ballads are just a few of the things Dr. Biology talks about with ASU School of Life Sciences Professor Ron Rutowski.
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| Topic | Time |
| How do butterflies fit into the ecosystem | 00:57 |
| Movement of energy | 01:31 |
| Pollen & Pollinators | 03:10 |
| Consuming bad tasting compounds to protect them from predators. | 03:27 |
| Monarch butterfly migration | 04:32 |
| Where to Monarchs migrate from the Intermountain zone? Tagging butterflies | 06:23 |
| How do Monarch butterflies know which way to go? Navigation | 07:27 |
| Maybe the sun? | 07:50 |
| Maybe wind currents? | 08:31 |
| Built in compass that works off the Earth's magnetic field. | 08:51 |
| Ecology and Monarch Butterflies | 09:34 |
| Genetically modified corn - pesticides. | 10:08 |
| Lincoln Brower - Monarch butterfly expert | 11:11 |
| Destruction of Monarch winter home. | 11:38 |
| More information on Ask-a-Biologist (Migrating Monarchs & Coloring Page) | 13:23 |
| Insect Vision - movies get it wrong. | 13:42 |
| Omatitium | 14:10 |
| What do insects see? | 14:25 |
| Structure of an insect eye (rods, cones, omatidium) | 15:13 |
| Butterflies and most insects do not see the world a clearly as humans. | 16:06 |
| Description of legally blind (20/20 and 20/200 vision). | 16:13 |
| Butterflies can still see detail | 17:51 |
| How close to males need to be to a female butterfly to see them? | 18:14 |
| Butterfly color and pattern. | 19:39 |
| What is optical resolution? | 20:04 |
| Butterfly color vision and color choice. | 20:28 |
| How many species of butterflies are there? | 21:27 |
| Do butterflies see color? | 21:38 |
| Can butterflies see colors that humans cannot see? (color wavelength chart) | 22:16 |
| Infrared light (IR) | 23:09 |
| Ultraviolet light (UV) | 23:29 |
| How does the color vision of butterflies affect their behavior? | 24:46 |
| Scientific American article and cover image | 25:22 |
| A simple experiment and or observation for young scientists. What in your back yard? | 26:39 |
| Resources for identifying butterfly species. | 28:03 |
| Butterfly gardens | 28:42 |
| How long have you been playing and performing with the violin? | 30:58 |
| Intro to song from solo album Violinalone (title - Stronger than Dirt) | 32:10 |
| Where did the title, Stronger than Dirt, come from? | 34:07 |
| Do you find it difficult juggling careers? | 34:52 |
| Is there a cross over between your science and music careers? | 36:59 |
| Is there a connection between your science and music? | 37:39 |
| Youtube video with Ron Rutowski and Jeff Dayton performing. | 38:52 |
| When did you first know that you wanted to be a biologist? | 39:34 |
| If you were not a biologist, what would you be? | 41:18 |
| Advice for young scientists | 41:42 |
Butterflies and Insect Vision
Audio editor: Charles Kazilek
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