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Description: | Morpho rhenetor, or Cramer's Blue Morpho, is a large and impressive species that lives in the rainforests of Venezuela, Guyana and Colombia. It's intense blue colour is not due to pigment, but to microscopic ridges in the scales of the wings that only reflect blue light. The intensity of the colour changes with the angle that the wings are held at, producing spectacular flashes of colour as the butterfly flies through the air. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East animals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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