As to the Blue Morpho's beautiful wings, their ability to keep the butterfly clean and dry suggests to him that the clapboard roof texture might suit medical equipment, where it could prevent the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. From the iridescent blue wings of the Eumaeus atala butterfly to the ...

The butterfly wing's micrometer-scale shingles viewed under electron microscope (Image: Bharat Bhushan and Gregory Bixler, courtesy of Ohio State University) 7 / 8 ...

The vibrant blue hues of morpho butterflies’ wings ... The tiny scales on a morpho butterfly’s wings, for example, are covered with minuscule ridges that have cross-ribs—a little like ...

The latest discovery was made with the blue morpho butterfly (Morpho peleides), which dazzles with its bright-blue wing coloration when it flits about in its native Central and South America.

Or rather, she made it right, building a net out of a community of friends and her devotion to resurrecting a cerulean-blue ... doesn’t just grow wings and emerge as a butterfly.

The butterfly's blue coloration only covers the inside of the wings, and thus only shows up in flight. At rest with the wings closed, the butterfly would only show its dull, brown coloring.

A thin film designed to mimic butterfly wings could keep cars cooler when applied ... samples in several colours including red, green and blue then exposed them to sunlight for about 7 hours ...

“Looks like an old one,” Diaz said, pointing out the tattered edges lacing the butterfly’s wings. In the life of a Fender’s blue, “old” means just nine or 10 days. On the slopes around ...

It remains on the list as "threatened." The butterfly effect theorizes that small events — the fluttering of the delicate wings of a Fender's blue butterfly as it lands on a Kincaid's lupine, ...

Contrary to popular belief, butterfly wings actually have living cells that help them thermoregulate. Yu et al. SHARE From the iridescent blue wings of the Eumaeus atala butterfly to the painted ...