Filming VarWild
After years of observing and filming the nature in the Var (France), "Filming VarWild" is created, specialized in documentaries about the biology and ecology of butterflies in the surroundings of Callas (South of France). The life-cycle; courtship-flight, mating, egg-laying, egg hatching, development of the caterpillars, pupating and the hatching of the chrysalis, is filmed in their habitat in relation to their food-plants. Parasitoids (Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, Chalcididae, Tachinidae), predation and the interaction between myrmecophile caterpillars of the Lycaenidae and ants, attracted by their dorsal nectary gland (Newcomer's gland), is filmed as well as the biodiversity of their environment.Research is undertaken to better understand what links certain species to a specific habitat and why so many butterfly populations are declining in number and distribution.
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Anastatus bifasciatus - the live history of this egg parasitoid
Anastatus bifasciatus parasitizes an egg of Iphiclides podalirius
HD - Multiparasitism by Ischyrocnemis and Terozoa of Aprosthema larvae
Terozoa quadridens parasitizes an Aprosthema larva in the eye
Superparasitism of Aprosthema tardum larvae by Terozoa quadridens
HD - The life cycle and larval development of Aprosthema tardum
HD - The life cycle of Lathrolestes erythrocephalus
Terozoa quadridens parasitizes an Aprosthema larva behind the head
HD - The life cycle of Ischyrocnemis goesi
HD - The life cycle of Thibetoides aprosthemae
HD -Thibetoides aprosthemae parasitizes different Aprosthema larvae
HD - Aprosthema larva multiparasitized by Lathrolestes and Thibetoides, with Lathrolestes surviving
HD - Aprosthema larva multiparasitized by Lathrolestes and Thibetoides, with no survivor
HD - Aprosthema larva multiparasitized by Lathrolestes and Ischyrocnemis
HD - Self-superparasitism by Lathrolestes erythrocephalus of Aprosthema larvae
Aprosthema larva multiparasitised by Lathrolestes and Terozoa, with Lathrolestes usually surviving
HD - Superparasitism of Aprosthema tardum larvae by Terozoa quadridens
HD - Multiparasitism by Ischyrocnemis goesi and Terozoa quadridens of Aprosthema larvae
Cycle de vie du Morio (Nymphalis antiopa)
Life cycle of the Camberwell beauty (Nymphalis antiopa)
Où sont donc les papillons?
30 Trichogramma gicai émergent d'un œuf d'Iphiclides podalirius
30 Trichogramma gicai emerge from one Iphiclides podalirius egg
Gelis timarchae (Phygadeuontinae) parasitizes a Timarcha nicaeensis egg
Gelis timarchae (Phygadeuontinae) oviposits in two Timarcha nicaeensis eggs
Gelis timarchae (Phygadeuontinae) male emerges from parasitized Timarcha nicaeensis egg
L'Apollon (Parnassius apollo) dans le Verdon
The Apollo (Parnassius apollo L.) in the Verdon Regional Natural Park
La Huppe en Provence Court métrage
The Eurasian Hoopoe in Provence, Short movie