Friday, January 7, 2011

Edith's checkerspot butterfly paying attention to gravity?

From the video's description: This clip shows a butterfly led gently onto a Collinsia plant and tasting the plant, finding the taste acceptable, curling her abdomen & extruding her ovipositor, just as in the first clip. But, having done this, instead of just feeling the underside of a leaf and laying her eggs there, she tumbles down the plant, apparently loses it for a few moments, then refinds it, tastes the base and searches for the lowest part of the plant under which she can lay her eggs. the clip then fasts-forward till the insect naturally completes her egg clutch, then a human appears to show you the eggs.

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