Bobcat Tractor Tree & Landscape Eager and Beaver Stump Grinding Butterfly wings are transparent. How can that be? We know butterflies as perhaps the most colorful, vibrant insects around! A butterfly wing is actually formed by layers of chitin, the protein that makes up an insects exoskeleton. These layers are so thin you can see right through them. Thousands of tiny scales cover the transparent chitin, and these scales reflect light in different colors. As a butterfly ages, scales fall off the wings, leaving spots of transparency where the chitin layer is exposed.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:03:47 +0000
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