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The Glass Butterfly
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| This beautiful butterfly, named ‘Greta oto‘ but nicknamed the ‘glass butterfly’ opens to each side 6 cm of incredibly beautiful, and completely transparent, wings. A close look at the glass butterfly’s wings will show you that through the veins running across its wings, you can see a perfect image. Most butterflies come with painted wings, using tiny scales to draw incredible designs we humans love to see. |
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| The reasons are usually the same: Either deter enemies or attract other butterflies. The glass butterfly’s wings have the same purpose: They hide the butterfly in plain sight, therefore allowing it to escape detection by birds, who have great eyesight, especially for color. |
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| To achieve this kind of transparencly, the wing is coated with numerous sub-microscopic tiny bumps that break light and prevent it from bouncing back from the wing, thereby creating transparency. |
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Source::::Carolina in ba-ba mail site
Natarajan