14th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Structural colour in the Morpho Rhetenor
The intense metallic blue colouration from this Morpho Rhetenor butterfly is due to microstructured wings acting like a diffraction grating to incident light.
Photo Detail
| Date Taken: | 11.2015 |
| Date Uploaded: | 11.2016 |
| Photo Location: | Brockenhurst, United Kingdom |
| Copyright: | © Greg Parker |