Moths strike out in evolutionary arms race with sophisticated wing design (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Moths strike out in evolutionary arms race with sophisticated wing design

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False-colour 3D representation of a 0.21 mm x 0.28 mm wing section of the moth Lasiocampa quercus showing structure, diversity and arrangement of base scales (orange) and cover scales (blue and yellow).

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Image courtesy of Simon Reichel, Thomas Neil, Zhiyuan Shen & Marc Holderied https://fluff.bris.ac.uk/fluff/u2/oc20541/IAQTQpmano3rxzmTBVQUIQxyp/

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