Time-lapse video from Berkeley graduate student Aaron Pomerantz, who now uses this technique to view real-time color formation in butterfly wings for his research, shows off this process for the ...

Yet there is a smaller, less colorful species of butterfly that also occurs here ... the rear edges of the orange-colored wings. Each side of the orange abdomen may or may not be adorned with ...

In order to attract a mate, the male Pierella luna butterfly of ... witnessed normal color diffraction in action, Kolle told Live Science. Imagine putting a CD shiny side up on a table and then ...