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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 (wikipedia). wingspan from 7.5–20 cm
butterfly house Vienna in the wilde: Mexico, Central America, northern South America, Paraguay, and Trinidad
At the beginning the butterfly did show just the back.
Spotted on Jan 4, 2012
Submitted on Jan 5, 2012
4 Comments
@lgCostaNut, There is already an older mission for blue coloured....:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8180...
Thanka for you nice comments IgVostaNut and bayucca. It was indeed spectacular when I saw the butterfly. It was like a blue flood light between trees.
Spectacular perspective, indeed!
spectacualar!!!!!! you can add this to the new "color blue" mission:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8382...