Editing Lepidoptera (section)

== Video gallery of butterfly life cycle ([[Pieris rapae]], the common cabbage white) ==
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|File:White cabbage from egg.webm|Emerging from egg and first feedings.

|File:2nd Instar eating.webm|Second instar larvae eating. Speeded up 50 times to illustrate feeding behavior. Nearly transparent body shows internal digestion.

|File:White 2nd InstarTo 3rd.webm|This second instar larvae sheds skin in under 20 minutes.

|File:White eating leaf.webm|Larvae eating remainder of a leaf. Six hours speeded up one hundred times.

|File:Cabbbage white shedding 4th instar skin.webm|Segments of the last two hours of the larvae shedding its 4th instar skin, after starting a few hours earlier.

|File:Larvae walking on glass.webm|Fifth instar [[Pieris rapae|white cabbage]] larvae walking on broccoli stem and on glass, showing it laying down silk it then walks on.

|File:White cabbage paraistiized larvae.webm|Parasitized larvae showing wasp larvae exiting its body, spinning cocoons. Playback at double speed. Adult wasps at normal speed.

|File:White cabbage to chrysalis.webm|Larvae shedding skin, becoming a chrysalis. Recorded over fifteen hours. Closeups at two times speed. Other clips at ten times speed.

|File:White cabbage to adult butterfly.webm|Emerging from chrysalis into an adult.

|File:White cabbage butterflies flying.webm|Butterflies flying. Later clips in slow motion.

|File:Whites puddling.webm|Male butterflies [[mud-puddling]] to concentrate salts for female reproduction.

|File:Whites cabbage egg depositing.webm|Butterflies depositing eggs under leaves. Each repeated in slow motion.
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