Glasswing butterflies

 
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:08 am    Post subject: Glasswing butterflies Reply with quote

These aren't exactly pets...





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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Beautiful. Where did you get those photographs?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

By e-mail from a cyber-friend. I don't know where she got them, but there's also this bit of text:

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Lives in South America

A butterfly with transparent wings is rare and beautiful.

As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of this rare tropical gem is used by rain forest ecologists as an indication of high habitat quality and its demise alerts them of ecological change. Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass window, the translucent wings of the Glasswing butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes of turquoise, orange, green, and red.


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