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Blue Morpho
Morpho peleides
The gorgeous iridescent blue of the Morpho butterfly’s upper wing surface is not a color, but is due to the reflection and refraction of light from tiny ridges and pits on the scales covering the wings. Many a photographer has been frustrated when a blue morpho lands, as it typically does, with its wings closed: the underside is a much less showy dark brown with subtle eyespots. You’ll not see this butterfly visiting flowers; instead it sips the fermenting juices from overripe fruit.
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