I am here to crawl through this web site with you. My appetite to teach is BIGGER than my appetite for leaves. Speaking of my appetite, this is what we have prepared for your dining pleasure. For the first course, we will munch on the difference between butterflies and moths. During our second course, we will bite into my life cycle. Served up next will be the third course which consists of my friend Flutter and his wonderful body parts. I saved the best for last. The final course is Flutter's family friends.
Butterfly wings are covered with scales (that's the meaning of the word lepidoptera). Each scale is a single color, most of which are produced by pigments. The iridescence that's sometimes seen is produced from a reflective micro structure on the surface of the scales. Butterfly wings are made colorful because of a coloring matter in animals or plants especially in cells or tissue called pigments. Each individual scale has it's own color. The bright rainbow like play of color caused by a different refraction of light waves that tend to change as the angel of view changes which is called iridescence which is sometimes seen produced from a reflective tiny structure on the surface of the scales.
