- Butterflies: a stunning new film gets close to these elusive insects
A BBC documentary captures Britain's native butterflies in stunning close-upA chrysalis that looks as if it is an alien spaceship. A peacock butterfly hissing like a snake to frighten a hungry mouse. An astonishingly hirsute mountain ringlet, scurrying through the grass at 2,000ft in the Scottish Highlands. Silver-washed fritillaries duelling high in the sunlit ride of an English woodland.Extraordinary footage shot by the BBC's natural history unit over the past 18 months will this week show our native butterflies in a new and surprising light. Butterflies: A Very British Obsession documents some of the eccentric collectors, conservationists and artists who have been inspired by the 59 species of butterfly found in the United Kingdom. But the real stars are, of course, the insects, here shown in slow motion and time-lapse photography as they are transformed from caterpillars smaller than a pin-head into garish and sometimes aggressive butterflies.The film was a labour of love for cameraman Mark Payne-Gill, whose bedroom as a boy resounded to the munch of the caterpillars he collected. A wildlife cameraman for 20 years, Payne-Gill finally returned to his obsession in the summer of 2009, racing between meadows and mountains to track down our rarest butterflies.Getting close to butterflies is hard, particularly with elusive treetop species such as the purple emperor. Payne-Gill enlisted the help of the National Trust's nature conservation adviser Matthew Oates, a great emperor aficionado, who is filmed laying foul-smelling baits – from pickled mudfish to shito, a Ghanaian fish paste – with Neil Hulme of Butterfly Conservation. Tempted from the treetops by this fishy stench, the insect's iridescent purple hue was captured on film by the cameraman, who shows the majesty of i BBCのドキュメンタリーは、エイリアンの宇宙船であるかのように見える美しいクローズアップupaの蛹にイギリスのネイティブの蝶をキャプチャします
- It's a funny old game: comedians take on critics at festival football
In support of Amnesty International's campaign to free imprisoned Burmese comic Zarganar, critics and comedians gathered at Edinburgh's Meadowbank stadium for a football showdownAlex HealeyAndrew Dickson
アムネスティインターナショナルのキャンペーン投獄ビルマコミックZarganar、批評家、コメディアンサッカーshowdownAlexのエジンバラのメドーバンクスタジアムHealeyAndrewディクソンに集まった解放へのサポートで
- Tennis star Wozniacki seeded No. 1 for US Open
Serena Williams' loss is Caroline Wozniacki's gain as the Danish tennis star was named Monday the top women's seed for the US Open which begins on Monday.Wozniacki was the runner-up at Flushing Meadows last year and is the first woman since 2003 to be seeded No. 1 at the US Open without already having won a major championship. Wozniacki is the second top ranked player in the world behind Williams who pulled out of the event with an injury.Spain's Rafael Nadal is the top men's seed, followed by Swiss star Roger Federer at No. 2. セリーナウィリアムズ。。u0026#39;損失はデンマークのテニススターとしてのキャロラインウォズニアッキの利得月曜日全米オープンMonday.Wozniackiから始まりますトップ女性のシード選手を開くフラッシングメドウで昨年、2003年以来初めて女性が選ばれたがシードされるすでにメジャー大会で優勝しなくても、USオープンでナンバー1
- Lleyton Hewitt looks for new tennis coach
Australia's former world number one Lleyton Hewitt is looking for a new coach after splitting with Nathan Healy, reports said on Thursday.The pair, who played together in doubles tournaments this year, have parted ways after 12 months.Hewitt's manager David Drysdale said the split was amicable with Healy wanting to spend more time with his wife and two-year-old daughter.Drysdale said Hewitt would not be rushing to fill the position with the US Open starting at New York's Flushing Meadows on Monday. オーストラリアの元世界ランク1位レイトンヒューイットはNathanヒーリーと分割後の新監督を探していると、レポートは一緒に演奏Thursday.Theペア、、今年の12 months.Hewittの後の方法を掲。責任者デビッドドライスデール別れたhaveトーナメントをdoublesだとsplit友好的なヒーリー妻と2歳のdaughter.Drysdaleでより多くの時間を過ごすしたいとなったヒューイットは全米オープンでの位置を、ニューヨークのフラッシングメドウで月曜日から始まる埋めるために急いですることはないと述べた
- How the IPL lost out to a very modern love affair | Dileep Premachandran
Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik have pushed even Sachin Tendulkar to a corner of the sports pages in IndiaSome of us can remember a time when Sania Mirza was a tennis player, one with the potential to go further than any Indian had gone before. My parents' generation spoke of Ramanathan Krishnan, while mine watched his son, Ramesh, and Vijay Amritraj pull off the odd famous victory without threatening much else. As for Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, doubles was their forte. Neither really mixed it with the big boys on the singles courts.When an 18-year-old Sania slugged it out from the baseline at a baking hot Melbourne Park, she carried the hopes of a nation of athletic underachievers. Leave cricket aside, and India doesn't really have much to get excited about in a sporting sense. Abhinav Bindra surmounted tremendous odds to win a shooting gold in Beijing, but that's hardly the sort of mainstream activity that gets the collective pulse pounding. Similarly, Viswanathan Anand may be India's greatest sporting achiever, but how many laypersons even consider chess a sport?When Sania managed to take a few games off a rampant Serena Williams, then on the cusp of her comeback to the big time, in the third round, it should have been the start of her journey to the bright lights. Later that year, she made the fourth round at Flushing Meadows. Each achievement was accompanied by unbelievable levels of hype, especially from the electronic media. It was eerily reminiscent of English football at the turn of the millennium when saturation coverage made £37,000-a-week stars of the likes of Seth Johnson.Somewhere along the line, Sania also bought into the hype, modelling herself more on Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova than Justine Henin. As a wrist injury and other niggles disrupt サニアミルザとショアイブマリクも私たちのIndiaSomeのスポーツページの隅に時間をサニアミルザ、テニスプレーヤー、1つの可能性よりもさらに任意のインドの前に行っていた入っていた覚えてサチンテンデュルカーを押している
- Canadian boy posts rape photos
PITT MEADOWS: Canadian police are considering charging a 16-year-old boy who put photos on Facebook of a girl being gang raped at a party. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector Derren Lench said a 16-year-old girl was drugged... ピットメドウズ：カナダの警察はFacebookを利用し少女ギャングというのパーティーでレイプ写真を置く16歳の少年を充電検討している
- NY Giants christen new stadium in fine style
The New York Giants celebrated a rousing housewarming at the New Meadowlands Stadium with a 31-18 victory over the Carolina Panthers to open their 201... ニューヨークジャイアンツは、201を開くにはカロライナパンサーズで31から18の勝利で新しいメドウランドスタジアムで活発な引越しを祝った...
- New-look Brazil impress in US friendly
A young Brazil side enjoyed an impressive 2-0 win over the United States in a friendly at the Meadowlands stadium in New Jersey, handing new coach Man... 若いブラジル側は、印象的な2-0は、米国以上にやさしいのニュージャージー州メドーランズスタジアムで勝つ、新監督の男を渡す楽しんで...
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