Glasswing Butterfly at Flower (IMAGE)

Marine Biological Laboratory

Glasswing Butterfly at Flower

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A glasswing butterfly feeding at flowers in Costa Rica. The remarkable transparency of these butterflies allows them to be "invisible", and the antiglare coating of their wings helps to prevent them from being given away by any glare of sunlight off their wings.

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Nipam Patel

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