Up to 20 layers of transparent scales on butterfly wings scatter white light to produce brilliant blue structural color. Alison Sweeney, Duke University, and collaborators at the Smithsonian ...

The morpho butterfly appears blue but it isn't actually. It looks blue not because of pigment but because of some very fancy scales on its wings. Released on 12/19/2016 ...

Researchers developed a nanostructured light diffuser that provides balanced lighting by diffracting blue and red light, and can be cleaned by simple rinsing with water. The diffuser consists of ...

The blue butterfly bush (Clerodendrum ugandense) is an evergreen that can reach 10 feet tall and wide but is often kept smaller. It blooms numerous light blue flowers that resemble little ...

Native to the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and South America, this bright blue butterfly has a short but stunning life. It is thought that the colour helps the males to mark their ...

One Blue Butterfly Bush will be left outside to test its hardiness for our Zone 7. Some Zone 8-9 gardeners say it will freeze back to the ground, but roots survive and send up new stems in the spring.

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Fender’s blue butterfly was first collected in 1929. Within 50 years, it disappeared. Mark V. Leppin ...

A $1,000 gift will sponsor an 18” tabletop blue butterfly and a staff workstation will receive a holiday sweet treat basket. Donations open Nov. 16 at 5:30 p.m. and will run through Dec. 31 ...

A Blue Morpho Butterfly. “That blue color isn't [necessarily] the color of the scale, but the way in which the scale interacts with light. So, the microscopic structure on the scales, what it ...