A Video Guide to Classic Wisconsin Butterflies (1992)

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TIMESTAMPS: Prologue: Butterfly Families (00:00) Part I: How to Know and Identify Butterflies; Coloration, size, shape, feeding habits, life history, identification and habits (03:02) Part II: Identification of Classic Wisconsin Butterflies, Numbered for Handy Reference (08:12)

Butterflies of Open Sunny Places - 1. Monarch (10:05) - 2. Eastern Black Swallowtail (11:27) - 3. Painted Lady (12:27) - 4. Common Wood Nymph (13:22) - 5. Dog Face (14:10) - 6. Red Admiral (14:48) - 7. American Painted Lady (15:46) - 8. Milbert's Tortoise Shell (16:40) - 9. Chryxus Arctic (17:22) - 10. Alfalfa Butterfly (18:02) - 11. Clouded Sulfur (18:56) - 12. Cabbage Butterfly (19:39) - 13. Meadow Fritillary (20:30) - 14. Checkered White (21:12) - 15. Great Copper (21:57) - 16. Pearl Crescent (22:56) - 17. Coral Hairstreak (23:49) - 18. American Copper (24:32) - 19. Eastern Tailed Blue (25:22)

Butterflies of Wetlands - 20. Great Spangled Fritillary (26:35) - 21. Aphrodite Fritillary (27:26) - 22. Viceroy (28:19) - 23. Baltimore (29:17) - 24. Northern Eyed Brown (30:11) - 25. Silver Bordered Fritillary (30:53) - 26. Harris' Checkerspot (31:45) - 27. Silvery Checkerspot (32:41) - 28. Bronze Copper (33:36) - 29. Harvestor (34:30) - 30. Acadian Hairstreak (35:22) - 31. Least Skipper (36:14)

Butterflies of the Forest - 32. Giant Swallowtail (37:18) - 33. Tiger Swallowtail (38:00) - 34. Mourning Cloak (38:58) - 35. Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (39:54) - 36. Compton Tortoise Shell (40:56) - 37. Banded Purple (41:51) - 38. Red Spotted Purple (42:47) - 39. Question Mark (43:46) - 40. Hackberry Butterfly (44:47) - 41. Comma (45:44) - 42. Northern Pearly Eye (46:42) - 43. Silver Spotted Skipper (47:41) - 44. Little Wood Nymph (48:36) - 45. Gray Comma (49:24) - 46. Mustard White (50:14) - 47. Edward's Hairstreak (51:16) - 48. Spring Azure (52:16) - 49. Pine Elfin (53:09)

Part III: Epilogue, Butterfly Conservation (54:15)

Shows more than 50 different butterflies which represent a majority of Wisconsin's most significant resident and migratory species. Covers identification, habitats, common and scientific names, average sizes, coloration, key features, sexual differences, distribution, flight times, relative abundance, and larval food plants.

Jim Ebner, author of the Milwaukee Public Museum's popular science handbook, "Butterflies of Wisconsin" (1970), brings into present day focus with camera and comment the dynamics of butterfly biology and behavior.

"Premier Edition". Produced by E/D Productions of Okauchee, Wisconsin, with the assistance of the Invertebrate Zoology Section of the Milwaukee Public Museum.

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