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What makes their wings colorful?

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What makes their wings colorful?

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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 microstructure on the surface of the scales.

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