I like hearing that the movie was helpful so thanks for letting me know, Robert. Now let me help you some more. I just posted a movie last Friday about how butterflies clap for fast getaways. It's intriguing info: ruclips.net/video/2wy1pOBeJ54/видео.htmlsi=rDJg92DdryRCzPD3
As for the music, Rose, it's hard to beat Vivaldi. And--like you--I learned a lot. I even managed to contact a butterfly expert to get the info about why the Swallowtails whirl around each other. Thanks for watching and thanks again, for such high praise.
I suppose this is one of my more poetic scripts, Frederick. I'm especially fond of the line: "If the whirling dervish act is only an evolutionary imperative for them, thank goodness our brains are developed enough to delight in watching them." May I suggest that you subscribe? I have 165 or so videos, all with sparkling narrations.
All around lovely video, Jo. My Buddleias have attracted more Eastern Tiger Swallowtails this year than I can ever recall. And a moment ago, there was even a solitary Monarch, which now unfortunately seem to be rare, joining them.
I don't remember ever before seeing so many Eastern Tiger Swallowtails either, Martin. We've got a small patch of milkweed, and we saw our first Monarch on it early this week. We didn't see him after Thursday. Maybe he moved on to your property.
Yes, the music starts out peaceful and turns dramatic as the Swallowtails flutter madly in their mating dances. Good for you to decide to overcome your fear. I did the same sort of thing to conquer my fear of snakes and spiders. (If you want to work more on the butterfly paranoia, type "butterflies Alwood" into the YT search box and several more movies will pop up.)
Jo, I just love your videos and I learn from every one of them. Great shots of the butterflies, up close and providing a view I could never get with my eyes alone. Your narration is delightful as well. Keep up the beautiful work.
That's heartwarming to hear, Macey Lou. If you haven't subscribed, you might want to consider doing that, because I have more than 200 films. I think you'd find others you'd like as much as you do this one.
Yep, the Tiger Swallowtails sure love butterfly bushes! They are often the second most common butterfly in my area in late spring and during the summer, only behind the Cabbage White butterfly.
Been filming all kinds of pollinators on native plants and will do a movie on that topic later this summer. Last summer I enjoyed learning about Gray Hairstreaks and Eastern Tailed-blues. But I'm a novice about butterflies--guessing you know lots more than I do.
I am an illustrator & fine artist. My current focus is on botanical/ entomology illustration. I gained amazing, valuable insight on the eastern tiger swallowtail by watching your lovely video. Thank you!
I don't know if this is a little out there but I think emotion would be a reasonable way for nature to control behavior. I think it's likely that the butterflies get pleasure from behaviors that promote survival or reproduction just like we enjoy socializing, procreating, and even learning. Maybe it's not as complex as what we enjoy but still pleasurable in some sense.
This was a great way for me to understand why the eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly pictures are so vastly different! They are like most creatures in the way that the males are more vibrantly colorful and the females have muted colors because they are trying to hide from predators
We humans seem to be the rare exception to that rule. Women are expected or anyway allowed to be more colorful than men. But after all, we have few predators. Female humans can afford to show off. I'm glad you found the movie helpful, and I'd like to suggest you give a look at one that I posted a couple of hours ago: "You May Think You Know How Butterflies Eat, But ..." I was inspired to make it after a Painted Lady Butterfly plopped down into my macro field of vision one morning when I was shooting closeups of bumblebees. The footage of that butterfly is some of the best I've shot of anything.
WOW. This is your best yet Jo. Everything was superb - the content of the voiceover ( I learned so much! ), the music (Vivaldi?), the pacing, the transitions, the footage! I have the most difficult time filming butterflies. How do you do it! Well, kudos and please do more!
Such specific praise is welcome, Judy, and all the more so coming from someone who films wildlife and knows what's involved in making a movie. I managed to get input from a butterfly expert for this one, which is why the info was so good. I'm currently filming Sulphurs, but they make it much harder to get closeups than the Swallowtails did. They're more skittish. (By the way, you're spot on with Vivaldi. It's Winter from The Four Seasons.)
Just beautiful. A pleasure to watch. It is very similar to my favorite which is the gorgeous Old World swallowtail. The two belonging to the same family. I haven't seen it in years. Best regards, Knut.
Which one have you not seen in years, the Old World Swallowtail? Butterflies are becoming scarcer--due to habitat loss and pesticides in this country. I wouldn't know about Norway.
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Old World Swallowtail is very rare in my county. Not so common anywhere else in the country either. Mostly in the east. Best regards, Knut.
Кашяпа е главната звезда на вселена "Змиеносец" и е вечно жив като Варуна, Шива и така нататък, но той не отговаря за външните отношения на нашата вселена с другите, а за "вътрешния" и ред, а негов аватар в момента е сина на Кундалини и настоящия морски Бог с две ръце и два крака, и е "малко" по умен от нас!
Someone please help ..if one of these had a hard piece of something sticking out of the body, near the tail..what would it be??? It won't fly away, it don't move much. Plz help.
Jo you film butterflies!! Very nice. My favorite swallowtail. This is so strange because I filmed a Passion Butterfly just yesterday one of my favorites also since I was a kid. I'm posting it on my channel right now! Check it out sometime but its not professional like yours!!
@@davidandrew6347 The new one goes up on August 13th, but if you'll type Mockingbird Jo Alwood into the RUclips search box, you'll see that I have a couple of old ones about the Mocker that are worth watching.
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME ok ill do that. Thnks. I watched the Mockingbird and the Starlings which I loved. The one here in my yard does that but gives up when the flocks get to big usually.The one in video was tenacious! Mocking birds seem to really have it out for starlings thou.
Oh good, I'm glad you enjoyed the Mockingbird movies. And I guess I'd agree that Mockers have it in for Starlings, but then again they have it in for pretty much everybody! Speaking of butterflies, I also did a couple of movies last year about Monarchs that you might like to check out.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can do anything for him. He may simply be at the end of his life cycle. They don't live long. It's sad to see something so beautiful helpless and dying, of course, but that's the way of life.
The music is from the third movement of Vivaldi’s Concerto No. 4, "Winter" (L'inverno), of The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) series, 1716-1717. See ruclips.net/video/9eEap53WxKY/видео.html Impressionistic, a musical offering of gentle airiness, swaying trees and flowers, cadences upward and down, butterfly-like. Much like Debussy, only 150 earlier. Thanks for this excellent video post!
I'm pleased to hear from someone who appreciates this little movie--and the Vivaldi I used with it.I enjoyed your description of the music and how appropriate it is for the topic. This is one of my older movies but still a favorite. Thanks for the compliment!
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Ah, I am just now proposing to Charleston neighborhood associations, churches, schools, city council people, etc. native plant butterfly patches in vacant / fallow public places with an Ernst Seed Co. "pollinator" mix. Those who stop and smell the flowers and marvel at the butterflies are typically the very young and the very old. I'm a longtime member of CBS: the Carolina Butterfly Society and listener to www.wqxr.org/. Consider for your next music butterfly video Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (no. 6).
@@jockstender7550 I'm so glad you told me about your project, Jock, and I wish you every success with it. Have you seen my two part series on the importance of native plants? I hope you'll watch at least one of them soon because I'm confident you'll be glad you found that info. Here's the link to Part One: ruclips.net/video/TaU9m2XGnlA/видео.html
So, I saw this butterfly courtship thing yesterday and wondered what it was. Now, I know. Thank you.
I like hearing that the movie was helpful so thanks for letting me know, Robert. Now let me help you some more. I just posted a movie last Friday about how butterflies clap for fast getaways. It's intriguing info: ruclips.net/video/2wy1pOBeJ54/видео.htmlsi=rDJg92DdryRCzPD3
Jo I learned so much from you. And I love the music. Your Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterflies made my day. Thanks Rosie McClarren
As for the music, Rose, it's hard to beat Vivaldi. And--like you--I learned a lot. I even managed to contact a butterfly expert to get the info about why the Swallowtails whirl around each other. Thanks for watching and thanks again, for such high praise.
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME I'm afraid of butterflies but your narration is cool, Jo.
@@karlc2869 I guess that's the ultimate compliment then, Karl.
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Well thanks Jo. I'm 34 BTW but even tho I'm a butterfly phobic your insight is awesome.
Jo Alwood, you are filled with a very poetic view of the natural world. I am so glad I found this video! Absolutely marvelous!!!
I suppose this is one of my more poetic scripts, Frederick. I'm especially fond of the line: "If the whirling dervish act is only an evolutionary imperative for them, thank goodness our brains are developed enough to delight in watching them." May I suggest that you subscribe? I have 165 or so videos, all with sparkling narrations.
I already subscribed... you needn't suggest it :)
I love your voice and narration style. Very professional. Your videos are so educational and entertaining. Bravo!
That is high praise indeed, Shakil. Thank you.
All around lovely video, Jo. My Buddleias have attracted more Eastern Tiger Swallowtails this year than I can ever recall. And a moment ago, there was even a solitary Monarch, which now unfortunately seem to be rare, joining them.
I don't remember ever before seeing so many Eastern Tiger Swallowtails either, Martin. We've got a small patch of milkweed, and we saw our first Monarch on it early this week. We didn't see him after Thursday. Maybe he moved on to your property.
i used to be scared of butterflies. but watching videos and reading about them is helping me . i like the music
Yes, the music starts out peaceful and turns dramatic as the Swallowtails flutter madly in their mating dances. Good for you to decide to overcome your fear. I did the same sort of thing to conquer my fear of snakes and spiders. (If you want to work more on the butterfly paranoia, type "butterflies Alwood" into the YT search box and several more movies will pop up.)
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME thanks for the suggestion
Awesome video. I saw one this morning but failed to get a picture. Very helpful information. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Terrlynn. This is one of my older films, but it’s still a favorite of mine.
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME your welcome.
Jo, I just love your videos and I learn from every one of them. Great shots of the butterflies, up close and providing a view I could never get with my eyes alone. Your narration is delightful as well. Keep up the beautiful work.
Thank you for such fulsome praise, Jack. It's a pleasure to know I'm provided you with pleasure.
I feel well rewarded for making the movie, Jack, when I hear such sincere appreciation of it. Thank you for writing.
Beautiful shots of butterflies and the flowers.
It's nice to get the contrast in colors, right? Connie said that's what he liked best about this movie too.
Another great video. It's a pleasure to watch your videos Jo. Thank you.
Thank you, Yves. I'm glad you took my suggestion and browsed around a little.
Great close up. Very educational. Thumbs up!
Thanks, Ann. I enjoyed watching them as I filmed and learning about them, especially why they whirl around as they do.
I love this video and your narration is perfect!🦋💕☺️
That's heartwarming to hear, Macey Lou. If you haven't subscribed, you might want to consider doing that, because I have more than 200 films. I think you'd find others you'd like as much as you do this one.
Found a yellow boy on the edge of the highway today, ended up here looking for info. Thankyou!
It's nice to hear that the film helped you out. Thanks for commenting.
Yep, the Tiger Swallowtails sure love butterfly bushes! They are often the second most common butterfly in my area in late spring and during the summer, only behind the Cabbage White butterfly.
Been filming all kinds of pollinators on native plants and will do a movie on that topic later this summer. Last summer I enjoyed learning about Gray Hairstreaks and Eastern Tailed-blues. But I'm a novice about butterflies--guessing you know lots more than I do.
I am an illustrator & fine artist. My current focus is on botanical/ entomology illustration. I gained amazing, valuable insight on the eastern tiger swallowtail by watching your lovely video. Thank you!
What a pleasure to hear that, Greg. You're welcome.
I just saw one yesterday fluttering about in my garden. They are so beautiful 🤍
Seeing one gives you a little spark of joy, doesn't it?
Excellent choice of music! Fit perfectly with the movements of the butterflies.
Both the music and the butterflies flow and flutter, right?
I like the way you think! :D
I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I can tell it's a compliment, so thank you. ;-)
I don't know if this is a little out there but I think emotion would be a reasonable way for nature to control behavior. I think it's likely that the butterflies get pleasure from behaviors that promote survival or reproduction just like we enjoy socializing, procreating, and even learning. Maybe it's not as complex as what we enjoy but still pleasurable in some sense.
What you say makes sense to me. Biologists might have some reservations about it, but I promise not to tell any of them that you said so.
Jo Alwood
Haha Thanks!
Beautiful butterfly
Can’t argue with that sentiment!
This was a great way for me to understand why the eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly pictures are so vastly different! They are like most creatures in the way that the males are more vibrantly colorful and the females have muted colors because they are trying to hide from predators
We humans seem to be the rare exception to that rule. Women are expected or anyway allowed to be more colorful than men. But after all, we have few predators. Female humans can afford to show off. I'm glad you found the movie helpful, and I'd like to suggest you give a look at one that I posted a couple of hours ago: "You May Think You Know How Butterflies Eat, But ..." I was inspired to make it after a Painted Lady Butterfly plopped down into my macro field of vision one morning when I was shooting closeups of bumblebees. The footage of that butterfly is some of the best I've shot of anything.
Beautiful ❤❤
WOW. This is your best yet Jo. Everything was superb - the content of the voiceover ( I learned so much! ), the music (Vivaldi?), the pacing, the transitions, the footage! I have the most difficult time filming butterflies. How do you do it! Well, kudos and please do more!
Such specific praise is welcome, Judy, and all the more so coming from someone who films wildlife and knows what's involved in making a movie. I managed to get input from a butterfly expert for this one, which is why the info was so good. I'm currently filming Sulphurs, but they make it much harder to get closeups than the Swallowtails did. They're more skittish. (By the way, you're spot on with Vivaldi. It's Winter from The Four Seasons.)
Just beautiful. A pleasure to watch. It is very similar to my favorite which is the gorgeous Old World swallowtail. The two belonging to the same family. I haven't seen it in years.
Best regards, Knut.
Which one have you not seen in years, the Old World Swallowtail? Butterflies are becoming scarcer--due to habitat loss and pesticides in this country. I wouldn't know about Norway.
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME
Old World Swallowtail is very rare in my county.
Not so common anywhere else in the country either. Mostly in the east.
Best regards, Knut.
Lovely video; lovely choice of music!
Thank you, James. Those swallowtails are lovely creatures. (And what could be better than Vivaldi to express their grace?)
I love your videos
In that case, PantherKing 13, I'll keep making them. (I love doing it.)
Love it! Great video Jo!
Love to hear from you, Ricky. Thanks!
Кашяпа е главната звезда на вселена "Змиеносец" и е вечно жив като Варуна, Шива и така нататък, но той не отговаря за външните отношения на нашата вселена с другите, а за "вътрешния" и ред, а негов аватар в момента е сина на Кундалини и настоящия морски Бог с две ръце и два крака, и е "малко" по умен от нас!
I read a translation of your comments, but they don't make sense to me. What do they have to do with this butterfly?
Someone please help ..if one of these had a hard piece of something sticking out of the body, near the tail..what would it be??? It won't fly away, it don't move much. Plz help.
Sorry, but I have no idea what that would be.
BUTTERFREE
Haha!
Jo you film butterflies!! Very nice. My favorite swallowtail. This is so strange because I filmed a Passion Butterfly just yesterday one of my favorites also since I was a kid. I'm posting it on my channel right now! Check it out sometime but its not professional like yours!!
Will do, David. I'm currently filming all kinds of pollinators on native plants in our yard.
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME when will you release the Mockingbird movies?
@@davidandrew6347 The new one goes up on August 13th, but if you'll type Mockingbird Jo Alwood into the RUclips search box, you'll see that I have a couple of old ones about the Mocker that are worth watching.
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME ok ill do that. Thnks. I watched the Mockingbird and the Starlings which I loved. The one here in my yard does that but gives up when the flocks get to big usually.The one in video was tenacious! Mocking birds seem to really have it out for starlings thou.
Oh good, I'm glad you enjoyed the Mockingbird movies. And I guess I'd agree that Mockers have it in for Starlings, but then again they have it in for pretty much everybody! Speaking of butterflies, I also did a couple of movies last year about Monarchs that you might like to check out.
Love it :)
Thanks, Sonic McPatriotic.
I found one in my backyard he can’t fly anymore what should i do with him?
Unfortunately, I don't think you can do anything for him. He may simply be at the end of his life cycle. They don't live long. It's sad to see something so beautiful helpless and dying, of course, but that's the way of life.
Papilio glaucus.
"Шеша" - даден ви е от небето "Шах - Шех", при "Шир-Хан" моите разполагат и със топка !
That noise is cap. They click or hiss.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
The music is from the third movement of Vivaldi’s Concerto No. 4, "Winter" (L'inverno), of The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) series, 1716-1717. See ruclips.net/video/9eEap53WxKY/видео.html Impressionistic, a musical offering of gentle airiness, swaying trees and flowers, cadences upward and down, butterfly-like. Much like Debussy, only 150 earlier.
Thanks for this excellent video post!
I'm pleased to hear from someone who appreciates this little movie--and the Vivaldi I used with it.I enjoyed your description of the music and how appropriate it is for the topic. This is one of my older movies but still a favorite. Thanks for the compliment!
@@JoAlwoodBIRDSANDTHENSOME Ah, I am just now proposing to Charleston neighborhood associations, churches, schools, city council people, etc. native plant butterfly patches in vacant / fallow public places with an Ernst Seed Co. "pollinator" mix. Those who stop and smell the flowers and marvel at the butterflies are typically the very young and the very old. I'm a longtime member of CBS: the Carolina Butterfly Society and listener to www.wqxr.org/. Consider for your next music butterfly video Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (no. 6).
@@jockstender7550 I'm so glad you told me about your project, Jock, and I wish you every success with it. Have you seen my two part series on the importance of native plants? I hope you'll watch at least one of them soon because I'm confident you'll be glad you found that info. Here's the link to Part One: ruclips.net/video/TaU9m2XGnlA/видео.html
Mae or natalie butterfly name those beautiful insects butterfly
Yes, they are beautiful indeed.
instagram.com/p/By0lDfMj2Eu/ , Swallowtail , Des Moines IA
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