JCMegabyte's video: Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Slow Motion 240fps V22530

The Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio rutulus) is a common sight in Santa Clarita and is having a particularly good year in 2017. Finding two or three of these passing through the neighborhood at any given time, pausing for a brief territorial battle, has been a daily event for at least the past two months. In these scenes we see a female hovering around a small apple tree, behaving as if she is selecting a site to lay her eggs. While Apple is not a typical host plant for this species, this one certainly makes an attempt to oviposit near the end of the video, although I was unable to verify if she actually left an egg there or not. These scenes were filmed with a Sony FS700RH high speed camera in full 1080p HD at 240 frames per second (fps), yielding a 10x slower-than-life playback when rendered at 24fps as seen here. Contains JCMDI video catalog : V22352,V22353, Stock footage time offsets: V22352: 00:08 V22353: 00:46 The soundtrack is "Ortni" from the "StarSpin EP" CD by Technician (yours truly), MP3 album and single track available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/starspin/id969654776 full artist discography and CDs available at HTTP://technician.jcmdi.com Note: The audio and video material contained herein is copyright 2017 JCM Digital Imaging, however, you may download this footage directly from YouTube and use it free of charge in your own non-profit/non-commercial YouTube videos, school projects, etc. The full free usage policy and YouTube copyright notice/ad info can be found here (please read before using JCMDI material): http://jcmdi.com/stockfootage/faq.html http://jcmdi.com/stockfootage/faq.html