Dennis has had a lifelong interest in insects. First collecting them when eight or nine, later photographing them.
My interest in insect behavior led me to video, 3-D video and high-speed video.
My interest in becoming a Wikimedia editor is to add video clips to existing pages illustrating that insect's behavior.
I have added video to the following pages:
Diptera (Flies) edit
Tipuloidea Craneflies
Asilidae Robberflies
Dolichopodidae long-legged flies
Lucilia sericataGreenbottle flies
genus Rivellia. Signal Flies
Coleoptera (Beetles) edit
Labidomera clivicollis Milkweed leaf beetle
Tetraopes tetrophthalmus The red milkweed beetle
Necrophila americana American carrion beetle
Epicauta funebris margined blister beetle
Family Cerambycidae -- Longhorn Beetles, genus Stictoleptura
Family Staphylinidae Rove Beetles
Hymenoptera (Bees, Wasps and Ants) edit
Polistinae Paper Wasp plusAdditional description.
Yellowjacket wasps
Bombus Bumlebees
Family Formicidae Ants
Hemiptera (True Bugs, including Aphids, Cicadas, Leafhoppers and Planthoppers) edit
Arilus cristatus North American wheel bug
Sinea diadema The spined assasssin bug
Phymatinae Ambush bug
Fieberiella florii nymph leafhopper
Cicadidae Annual cicadas
genus Magicicada Periodical cicada
Oncopeltus fasciatus, The large milkweed bug in the family Oncopeltus
Family Gerridae Water Striders
Lepidoptera Butterflies and Moths edit
Butterfly Life Cycle in Video (Pieris rapae, the common cabbage white) edit
Gallery edit
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Cabbage white emerging from egg and starting to eat broccoli leaf.
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Second instar larvae eating. Speeded up 50 times to illustrate feeding behavior. Nearly transparent body shows internal digestion.
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Second instar larvae sheds skin in under 20 minutes.
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Cabbage white larvae eating remainder of a broccoli leaf. Six hours speeded up one hundred times.
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Segments of the last two hours of the Cabbage white larvae shedding its 4th instar skin. It started a few hours earlier. The integument has already pulled away from its head capsule as this video starts.
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Fifth instar white cabbage larvae walking on broccoli stem and on glass, showing it laying down silk it then walks on.
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Parasitized white cabbage larvae showing wasp larvae exiting its body, spinning cocoons. Playback at double speed. Adult wasps at normal speed.
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White cabbage larvae shedding skin, becoming a chrysalis. Recorded over fifteen hours. Closeups at two times speed. Other clips at ten times speed.
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Cabbage white emerging from chrysalis into an adult.
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White cabbage butterflies flying. Later clips in slow motion.
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Male cabbage white (Pieris rapae) butterflies mud-puddling
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White Cabbage Butterflies depositing eggs under broccoli leaves. Each repeated in slow motion.
Hemaris diffinis the snowberry clearwing
Family Pterophoridae Subfamily Pterophorinae Geina buscki Bucks Plume
Family Nymphalidae
Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus
Geometridae Inchworms
Synchlora aerata Wavy-lined emerald moth
Noctuidae owlet moths
Cucullia asteroides Asteroid Caterpillar
Spilosoma virginica Yellow Bear
Pyrrharctia isabella Wooly Bear
Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets and katydids) edit
Oecanthus nigricornis the Black-horned tree cricket
Gryllus Field Cricket
Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) edit
Zygoptera Damselflies
Anisoptera Dragonflies
Order Mantodea Preying Mantases edit
Camouflage and Motion camouflage
Order Araneae Spiders edit
Genus Phidippus
Thomisidae Crab Spiders
Castianeira longipalpa Ant mimic spider
Thomisidae Crab Spiders
Castianeira longipalpa Ant mimic spider
Mammals edit
Others edit
Solanum carolinense horsenettle
Poecilochirus carnivorous mites