A Blue morpho butterfly egg, caterpillar and adult specimen. With a wingspan of 8-inches, it’s one of the largest in the world. Magic.

Blue Morpho. Belonging to the tropical areas of Latin America, the blue morpho is a striking butterfly. ... There, the female will lay eggs on plant leaves. 10. Swallowtail.

READ MORE: And that weird green dome is a Blue Morpho egg - near to hatching, judging by the ring of red spots caught in the photo in National Geographic Magazine.

The morpho butterfly flashes perhaps the most stunning blue in the animal kingdom. But here's the weird bit: That's no pigment. It's actually a trick of light, thanks to some fancy nano-level ...

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. Transcript ...

The Butterfly House spends $3 for each blue morpho it sources from El Bosque Nuevo. Half of the sale goes to rainforest preservation efforts, and the other half is routed to the local farmers. “Some ...

The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction.. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January ...

“A human blood cell is about 10 microns in size — a pretty typical size for a cell in our bodies. A butterfly scale is…a huge one, about 50 microns across and 200-250 microns long.” Morpho peleides ...

A Blue Morpho butterfly rests on a leaf, briefly exposing the bright color on its wings in the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield on Feb. 4, 2021.

PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - September is Blue Morpho Butterfly Month at Callaway Gardens' Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center. Typically there are more than 1,000 tropical butterflies of various kinds flying ...