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Flickr group: pic of the day – Tailed jay butterfly May 6 2008

The tailed jay butterfly (Graphium agamemnon), also known as the green spotted triangle, tailed green jay or green triangle, is a tropical species of the swallowtail family. It is widely found in Australia, India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.

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Flickr group: pic of the day – plain tiger caterpillar Mar 13 2008

This plain tiger caterpillar (Danaus chrysippus) will mature into a common plain tiger butterfly, also known as an African monarch. They are widely found in Africa and Asia.

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Caterpillars trick ants Jan 29 2008

When humans make themselves smell more alluring than they really are it’s fairly harmless, but it’s a case of life and death for the larvae of Alcon blue butterflies, which trick red ants into feeding them, leaving the young ants to starve.

Alcon caterpillars dupe the ants by giving off a scent which mimics that of the insects’ own larvae.

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Eleven new species discovered Oct 1 2007

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has announced the discovery of 11 new species exclusive to Vietnam. They include a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties discovered in the Green Corridor, a lowland wet evergreen forest region in the Thua Thien Hue province.

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Help us to identify this butterfly species! Sep 25 2007

Identifying butterflies is notoriously difficult. We aren’t sure what this species is, captured on film by our crew along the Cuyabeno River in Ecuador. Perhaps it could be Glutophrissa Drusilla or Melete lycimnia?

Ecuador is in fact home to about 4 500 species of butterflies!

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This week’s most viewed stories Sep 21 2007

The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 14 September to Thursday 20 September 2007) were:

Number 1

Blackfin sharks at close range

A small shoal of curious blackfin sharks gradually grows into a mob as more and more swim up close to investigate the strangers in their space.

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Coming soon: Scenes from Ecuador Sep 13 2007

The culturally and environmentally diverse country of Ecuador in South America is the next location Earth-Touch will be screening footage from.

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New footage from Florida, USA Aug 15 2007

Earth-Touch now has a crew in the United States of America. Yes, we have a field crew in the States who have already started delivering beautiful footage all the way from Florida.