Morpho Butterfly (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Morpho Butterfly

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Nanostructures in the morpho butterfly's wings create its distinct blue hue, and similar nanostructures in its eye allow it to see multispectral images.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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