Keywords and topics that are found in this program: butterflies, monarch
butterflies, migration, navigation, insect vision, color, color vision, UV, IR,
butterfly color and patterns, food web, ecosystem, music, performing.
| 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 |
| Advise for young scientists |
41:42 |
