{"id":3341,"date":"2019-07-24T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:35:59","slug":"clip-of-the-week-cairns-birdwing-pupation-timelapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/clip-of-the-week-cairns-birdwing-pupation-timelapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip of the Week &#8211; birdwing pupation timelapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Cairns birdwing butterfly caterpillar pupation timelapse<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/stock-video\/timelapse-of-a-cairns-birdwing-(ornithoptera-euphorion)-butterfly-caterpillar\/search\/detail-0_01620743.html\">This clip<\/a> shows a Cairns birdwing caterpillar metamorphosing into a chrysalis. It was filmed in Queensland, Australia, in April, by Jurgen Freund.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/345512727?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #001000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Cairns birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion) is the largest endemic butterfly in Australia. The males can have a wingspan of up to 12.5cm, and the females of 15cm. The impressively spiked caterpillars grow to 9cm in size, and store poison accumulated from food plants in their orange spines! These spines deter birds from attacking the caterpillars.<\/p>\n<h3>Jurgen commented:<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Six years ago very near our outdoor breakfast table, we planted the native rainforest pipevine\u00a0<em>Aristolochia tagala<\/em>\u00a0hoping to attract Cairns birdwing butterflies to our garden. We were rewarded this year with several fussy female Cairns birdwing butterflies laying their eggs where our healthy vines were. On many breakfast mornings over several months, we watched and filmed the different stages of caterpillar growth, mostly seeing them eating the vines voraciously. Eventually, the later caterpillar batches had almost no more green leaves and vines to eat, resorting to eating the remaining stump, almost all the way down to the ground. We had a total of 18 caterpillars and 15 made it to the chrysalis stage with two chrysalis hatching into beautiful female Cairns birdwing butterflies. Truly we witnessed nature&#8217;s living miracle happen right in front of our eyes, with every stage of growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery gallery-3341 style-standard'><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon portrait'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541444-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion) chrysalis, Queensland, Australia.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541444-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541444-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541444-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion) chrysalis, Queensland, Australia.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"A female Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion), Kuranda Butterfly Sanctuary, Queensland, Australia. Captive.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-375x249.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-900x599.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01602451-159x106.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"A female Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion), Kuranda Butterfly Sanctuary, Queensland, Australia. Captive.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-three-two size-three-two\" alt=\"Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion) on red tropical flowers, Queensland, Australia.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01541450-159x106.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera euphorion) on red tropical flowers, Queensland, Australia.\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairns birdwing butterfly caterpillar pupation timelapse This clip shows a Cairns birdwing caterpillar metamorphosing into a chrysalis. It was filmed in Queensland, Australia, in April, by Jurgen Freund. The Cairns birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion) is the largest endemic butterfly in Australia. The males can have a wingspan of up to 12.5cm, and the females of 15cm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/clip-of-the-week-cairns-birdwing-pupation-timelapse\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}