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Butterflies and Insect Vision -

Part 1 of an interview with ASU School of Life Sciences Professor Ron Rutowski.

Podcast content summary and time log for Volume 7 of Ask-a-Biologist.

 


Keywords and topics that are found in this program: butterflies, monarch butterflies, migration, navigation, food web.


Topic Time
How do butterflies fit into the ecosystem 01:01
Movement of energy 01:35
Pollen & Pollinators 03:14
Consuming bad tasting compounds to protect them from predators. 03:31
Monarch butterfly migration 04:36
Where to Monarchs migrate from the Intermountain zone? Tagging butterflies 06:27
How do Monarch butterflies know which way to go? Navigation 07:31
Maybe the sun? 07:54
Maybe wind currents? 08:34
Built in compass that works off the Earth's magnetic field. 08:54
Ecology and Monarch Butterflies 09:38
Genetically modified corn - pesticides. 10:11
Lincoln Brower - Monarch butterfly expert 11:14
Destruction of Monarch winter home. 11:43
More information on Ask-a-Biologist (Migrating Monarchs & Coloring Page) 13:27
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