A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors ...

Life Colour pattern on insect's wings preserved in fossil 14 December 2005 It is rare to find a pattern preserved in such clarity, says Sam Heads (Image: Robert Loveridge) ...

It turns out that over 200 million, years very little has changed. The preserved arrangement and well as the herringbone ornamentation of the scales on the wings of these Jurassic moths is almost ...

Environment Animals Insects Now paleontologists know what colors graced these 200-million-year-old butterfly wings They found some nanoscale clues on the hues. By Amelia Urry ...

To simulate it, McNamara left the insect wings in pond water for 18 months, then baked them at temperatures as high as 518 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than most home ovens, and pressures almost 500 ...

A particularly impressive dual use of color, she adds, is seen in the blue morpho butterfly of the Central and South American rain forests. This insect's strikingly blue wing color "is used to ...

Citation: “Stable structural color patterns displayed on transparent insect wings.” By Ekaterina Shevtsova, Christer Hansson, Daniel H. Janzen, and Jostein Kjærandsen.