Weird animal of the day: the blue morpho butterfly.
Those shiny blue wings, NOT BLUE!
If you ground up the butterfly and sifted through the remains, there would not be a shred of blue in it.
They're blue for the same reason bubble and oil slicks are blue: thin film diffraction!
Those shiny blue wings, NOT BLUE!
If you ground up the butterfly and sifted through the remains, there would not be a shred of blue in it.
They're blue for the same reason bubble and oil slicks are blue: thin film diffraction!
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https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/06/30/blue-birds-arent-blue-this-is-how-they-fool-you
Also, here's a cool movie of blue morpho scales under microscopes.
https://www.uvm.edu/~dahammon/Structural_Colors/Structural_Colors/Blue_Morpho_Movie.html