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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Butterflies have been flying around the planet for over 50 million years, and today around 20,000 different species inhabit the globe. From egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to the winged insect, this follow their life stages, highlighting their survival techniques and the new science that is unlocking the secrets of their world and changing the view of these fantastic and yet fragile creatures.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This new series takes your child on a musical adventure over Niagara Falls, inside a spooky cave in Oklahoma, and to the amazing butterfly forest in Mexico. Join Leo, June, Annie, Quincy, and Rocket as they try to complete a mission. Features animation, live-action footage, famous works of art, and classical music.
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about butterflies, moths and the amazing process of metamorphosis. How many varieties of butterflies and moths are there? Why do butterflies have spots on their wings that look like eyes? What evolutionary benefit might these "eyes" provide? Do moths really make silk? How does a caterpillar become a butterfly or moth? What is a chrysalis? How are Monarch butterflies capable of multi-generational...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, WINGS OF LIFE utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Every year, 100 million monarch butterflies set off on an incredible journey across North America. These beautiful creatures fly 2,000 miles to reach their remote destination in a tiny area high in the mountains of Mexico. Scientists still puzzle over how the butterflies achieve this tremendous feat of endurance, and how, year after year, the monarchs navigate with such hair's breadth precision. Visit the spectacular locations they call home and meet...
12) Amazing journeys
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Experience six of nature's truly unique migrations as viewers fly on the delicate wings of a butterfly and dive into the depths of the oceans with a colossal whale.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of six-year-old best friends, Sally and Nick, as they are whisked off on extraordinary voyages of scientific discovery with the Cat in the Hat. In this third volume, learn how spiders build webs to catch their prey, how wolves communicate with each other, why butterflies migrate and so much more!
14) The dark divide
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The dark divide is based on the true story of renowned butterfly expert Dr. Robert Pyle's perilous 1995 journey across one of America's largest undeveloped wildlands. At the urging of his dying wife Thea, the shy author finds himself in over his head on an epic, life-changing expedition through Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest in search of new species of butterflies."--Container.
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