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Butterflies — Transcript Corrections

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File: Butterflies (Great Southeast Pollinator Course — Week Three)
Date Corrected: July 6, 2026
Webinar Date: June 30, 2026 (Tuesday)
Series: Great Southeast Pollinator Course
Topic: Entomology / Pollinator conservation (butterflies)
Speakers: Dr. Sonia Altizer (UGA Entomology Department Head); Jeremy Rhoden (UF/IFAS, Florida census coordinator)
Moderator: Becky Griffin (UGA Extension — course host); Rich Braman (co-host, behind the scenes)

SOURCE VERIFICATION

  • Original blocks: 340
  • Corrected blocks: 340 ✓ MATCH CONFIRMED
  • Time range: 00:00:04,619 to 01:29:24,480 (~89 min)
  • File reading: COMPLETE ✓ (all 1,360 lines viewed before editing)
  • Coverage proof:
    • Early [~03:06]: zebra swallowtail caterpillars feed only on pawpaw, the largest fruit native to North America (custard apple family).
    • Middle [~46:00]: Jeremy’s walk-through of the Xerces Society native-plant finder — search by state, download a list with bloom time and larval-host / pet-safe icons.
    • Late [~1:14:00]: Sonia cites a study — “for every five butterflies 20 years ago, only four remain today”; over 10× as many species declining as increasing.

Corrections Applied

Corrections were applied by counted string replacement directly against the raw file, so no timestamp or sequence value could drift. 41 individual corrections across 35 text lines. The transcript was clean overall — accurate timestamps and mostly correct speaker labels — so correction concentrated in butterfly taxonomy, pigment and plant terminology, and presenter names.

Proper Nouns — Speaker Names

  • “Jeremy Roden” → “Jeremy Rhoden” (blocks 6, 134) — roster-confirmed spelling; the SRT speaker labels already read “Jeremy Rhoden,” only in-text mentions were wrong.
  • “Sanya” → “Sonia” (block 15) — inside Sonia’s quotation of her former advisor addressing her.
  • “let Sonya get” → “let Sonia get” (block 133); “which Sonja gave” → “which Sonia gave” (block 260); “for Sonja and Jeremy” → “for Sonia and Jeremy” (block 340) — phonetic manglings of Sonia.
  • “talking with Sonny” → “talking with Sonia” (block 291) — Jeremy referring to his co-presenter.
  • Speaker label block 323: “Becky Griffin:” → “Sonia Altizer:” — the block is entirely Sonia continuing her chrysalis-hiding answer from block 322 (single-speaker block, mislabeled by the ASR).

Institutions and Programs

  • “great Southeast” → “Great Southeast” (block 6); “great Southeast pollinator census” → “Great Southeast Pollinator Census” (block 30) — course program proper noun.

Scientific Names — Butterfly Families and Groups

  • “pyarids” → “pierids” (block 60); “common pyarid butterflies” → “common pierid butterflies” (block 90).
  • “the Lysenids and the Riodenids” → “the lycaenids and the riodinids” (block 61); “a group called the Lysenids” → “the lycaenids” (block 124).
  • “family Papillionidae” → “family Papilionidae” (block 80).
  • “family name is called Pyridae” → “Pieridae” (block 81).
  • “family Lysenidae” → “family Lycaenidae” (blocks 81, 129).
  • “family Hesperidae” → “family Hesperiidae” (block 82).

Scientific Names — Species and Life Stages

  • “Gull fritillaries” → “Gulf fritillaries” (block 89); “Gull Fritillaries” → “Gulf Fritillaries” (block 113). (Gulf fritillary — Agraulis vanillae; the correctly spelled “gulf fritillary caterpillar” in block 116 was left as is.)
  • “a larval, a pupil, and an adult stage” → “a larval, a pupal, and an adult stage” (block 111); “pupa sage” → “pupa stage” (block 167); “life sages” → “life stages” (block 178).

Chemical / Biological Terms

  • “Terrans, P-T-E-R-I-N-S” → “pterins, P-T-E-R-I-N-S” (block 46) — wing pigment (yellows/whites); spelling clarification preserved.
  • “Omichromes” → “ommochromes” (block 46) — wing pigment (reds/oranges/browns).
  • “cardinalides” → “cardenolides” (blocks 319, 320) — the cardiac glycosides monarchs sequester from milkweed.
  • “the BT, the little floating BT discs” → “the Bt, the little floating Bt discs” (block 338) — Bacillus thuringiensis mosquito discs.

Plant Names

  • “plantain or plantega” → “plantain or Plantago” (block 91).
  • “Senna or Partridge P.” → “Senna or partridge pea.” (block 90) — ASR truncated “pea” to “P.”
  • “umbell lantana” → “umbel lantana” (block 187).
  • “zebra long wings” → “zebra longwings” (block 187) — standardized to the compound form used elsewhere in the transcript.

Technical Terms

  • “stimulate of a position in feeding” → “stimulate oviposition and feeding” (block 121); “lay eggs or alva position” → “lay eggs or oviposition” (block 164).
  • “website BOMONA” → “website BAMONA” (block 103) — Butterflies and Moths of North America (butterfliesandmoths.org).
  • “the seek app” → “the Seek app” (block 106); “upload it to seek.” → “upload it to Seek.” (block 108) — the iNaturalist Seek app (already capitalized in block 250).
  • “pollinare gardens” → “pollinator gardens”; “landscape pest and pollinare management” → “landscape pest and pollinator management” (block 137); “a great polliner plant” → “a great pollinator plant” (block 179).

Grammar

  • No standalone grammar-only edits made. The speaker’s natural phrasing and filler were preserved; only recognition errors and proper nouns were touched.

Flagged for Verification

No [VERIFY] or [INAUDIBLE] tags were inserted in the SRT body — no term was ambiguous enough to warrant one. Three items are recorded here for the team rather than marked in the file:

  • Merged-speaker blocks (cannot be split per SRT rules): two blocks contain more than one speaker and could not be cleanly relabeled without splitting, which is prohibited. They retain their dominant-speaker label and are flagged for the Stage 2 audio pass:
    • Block 290 — opens with Becky’s handoff (“Since you’re in Florida, Jeremy, do you want to start?”) then continues as Jeremy’s answer; labeled “Jeremy Rhoden.”
    • Block 334 — opens with the tail of Jeremy’s answer (“…doing broadcast spraying like that…”) and his handoff to Sonia, then Sonia’s reply; labeled “Sonia Altizer.”
    • (Block 324 similarly runs Sonia then Becky’s transition to the last question; labeled “Sonia Altizer.”)
  • “Richie” (block 6): Sonia thanks “Becky and to Richie” — her spoken, informal reference to co-host Rich Braman. Left verbatim as source-fidelity rather than corrected to “Rich.”
  • “Southeast Pollinator Census” (block 262): Jeremy’s spoken shorthand (dropping “Great”). Left verbatim.

SRT Format Compliance

✅ All timestamps preserved exactly as original (byte-identical on diff)
✅ All sequence numbers maintained (byte-identical on diff)
✅ Blank lines between segments preserved
✅ Maximum 2 lines per subtitle segment maintained
✅ No segments merged or split
✅ Block count: 340 original = 340 corrected ✓

Total Corrections: 41 individual corrections (35 text lines edited)
Processing: Complete file (340 subtitle blocks, 1,360 lines)

New Patterns for the Common Corrections Reference

Add to the Pollinator / Native-Bee correction table in the course README (butterfly additions):

Whisper OutputCorrect Form
pyarids / pyaridpierids / pierid (Pieridae)
Lysenids / Lysenidaelycaenids / Lycaenidae
Riodenidsriodinids (Riodinidae)
PapillionidaePapilionidae
PyridaePieridae
HesperidaeHesperiidae
Gull fritillaryGulf fritillary
Terrans (P-T-E-R-I-N-S)pterins
Omichromesommochromes
cardinalidescardenolides
plantegaPlantago
of a position / alva positionoviposition
BOMONABAMONA (Butterflies and Moths of North America)
Jeremy RodenJeremy Rhoden

Correction summary produced for UGA Center for Urban Agriculture / Great Southeast Pollinator Course Archives
Source: Raw SRT — “Pollinator Course Week Three_ Butterflies.srt” (340 blocks)

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