11 May 2022

Lace bug with beautiful wings


I presume most of those colors are structural rather than pigments.  The colors are neither pigments nor structural, but are caused by "thin film interference", the same process as in soap bubbles and oil puddles (with a tip of the blogging hat to reader Drabkikker for the info).  There are no useful comments at the via.

3 comments:

  1. bobbieMay 11, 2022 at 2:56 PM

    WOW!!! Mother Nature's stained glass!

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  2. AnonymousMay 11, 2022 at 5:55 PM

    Seems to me it's screaming here I am come eat me.
    Must taste or smell really bad to be that brazen.
    xoxoxoBruce

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  3. DrabkikkerMay 13, 2022 at 12:43 PM

    The colors are neither pigments nor structural, but are caused by "thin film interference", the same process as in soap bubbles and oil puddles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_interference

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