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Morpho Peleides
The brilliant blue color in the butterfly's wings is caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings. It uses this to frighten away predators, by flashing its wings rapidly. The wingspan of the Blue Morpho butterfly ranges from 7.5–20 cm (3.0–7.9 in). The entire Blue Morpho Butterfly lifecycle, from egg to adult is only 115 days.
Butterfly garden
Spotted on Aug 21, 2011
Submitted on Aug 25, 2011
2 Comments
@Susan, spotted one open some time ago. Unfortunately with a 'broken' wing as well. They play hard to get all the time :-)
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/671...
did you have a hard time trying to shoot with its wings open? I did but finally I got one but not so good
mine: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/655...