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Peleides Blue Morpho, Common Morpho, Emperor

Morpho peleides

Photo by Saarbrigger
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Field Notes

Description:

The brilliant blue color in the butterfly's wings is caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings. It uses this to frighten away predators, by flashing its wings rapidly (wikipedia). wingspan from 7.5–20 cm

Habitat:

butterfly house Vienna
in the wilde: Mexico, Central America, northern South America, Paraguay, and Trinidad

Notes:

At the beginning the butterfly did show just the back.

Reference Links:

Morpho peleides

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Comments (4)
Saarbrigger
@lgCostaNut, There is already an older mission for blue coloured....: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8180070
Saarbrigger
Thanka for you nice comments IgVostaNut and bayucca. It was indeed spectacular when I saw the butterfly. It was like a blue flood light between trees.
bayucca
Spectacular perspective, indeed!
LarryGraziano
spectacualar!!!!!! you can add this to the new "color blue" mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8382876

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PublishedJanuary 5, 2012

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