美麗的透明蝴蝶Transparent Butterfly

on Oct 10, 2008

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It comes from Central America and is found from Mexico to Panama. It is quite common in its zone, but it not easy to find  because of its transparent wings, which is a natural camouflage  mechanism.    A butterfly with transparent wings is rare and  beautiful.    As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence  of this rare tropical gem is used by rain forest ecologists as an indication of high abitat quality and its demise alerts them of ecological change.   Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass window, the translucent wings  of the Glasswing butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes of  turquoise, orange, green, and red.

All things beautiful do not have to  be full of color to be noticed: in life that which is unnoticed has the most  power