How do butterflies get their designs?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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There are thousands of species of butterflies, all with unique patterns of color on their wings. How did those designs get there? We asked butterfly collection curator Blanca Huertas to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:07.8 | Moment of um, um, um, um, um, um. |
| 0:10.6 | Momento. Moment of Um, I'm comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Nina Memento, |
| 0:15.2 | costume designer to the Stars. And I need help. |
| 0:20.4 | Um... I've been making costumes for major stage productions for decades. I've dressed actors in |
| 0:30.1 | everything from Shakespearean outfits to Space Age threads. |
| 0:35.0 | I like to think that I'm up for just about any challenge so you can imagine my delight |
| 0:40.0 | when I got the call to do costumes for production of Butterfly Follies, a singing, dancing spectacular |
| 0:48.6 | with a star-studded cast. |
| 0:51.0 | The director is Melvin Marvin, and he's a genius. He really is, but sometimes I'm just not sure I follow his more visionary ideas. |
| 1:01.0 | He wants me to make all the costumes based on real butterfly designs. |
| 1:06.0 | So I've been browsing through all the butterfly books I could find and there are just too many options. |
| 1:12.0 | Dots and swirls. Too many options. |
| 1:16.0 | Dots and swirls, stripes and squiggles. Do I go bold and colorful or pastel? |
| 1:20.0 | Earth tones? |
| 1:21.0 | I need to know where butterflies get all these looks. |
| 1:25.9 | Is there a consultant I could call? |
| 1:28.4 | Zellie wanted to know too. |
| 1:30.4 | Hi my name is Zellie. I live in Paris, France and my question is how do butterflies get their designs? |
| 1:41.0 | We all know they're pretty they give us some patterns and colors. |
| 1:46.0 | Hi my name is Blanca Huertas. I work as the principal curator of the Butterfly Collections at the Natural History Museum in London. |
| 1:57.2 | All of this are very important for scientists because they help us not just to make groups of butterflies to understand them, |
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