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The butterfly exhibit at Brookside Gardens has returned after spending 5 years in hiatus. The Butterfly Experience, ...
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Butterfly Jungle exhibit lets visitors get up close and personal with winged wonders.
For instance, the blue Morpho butterfly is now being studied by researchers at the University of California San Diego in the ...
La exhibición Butterfly Jungle del San Diego Zoo Safari Park permite a los visitantes acercarse a las maravillas aladas.
His father once gave him some butterfly specimens, including one stunning Morpho butterfly, an insect native to South America, with wings such a glittering shade of blue that he still remembers it ...
Gleaming in the air, the iridescent blue morpho protects itself from predators using the power of light. Native to the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and South America, this bright blue ...
A group of Osaka University researchers has developed a novel design for daylight window panes inspired by the structure of the Morpho butterfly wings that shine in a brilliant blue. The pane ...
When our first batch of blue morpho butterflies began to emerge from their chrysalises in 2015, we were there to catch the process on film. Each individual butterfly takes only one or two minutes to ...
Inspired by the way that the Morpho butterfly creates color, researchers developed colorful cooling films that don’t absorb light and thus don’t heat up. The researchers used an infrared ...
The evolution of solar power in Europe is enabled by multicoloured solar panels which mimic the colours found on morpho butterfly wings. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE ...