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IMAGE: A glasswing butterfly feeding at flowers in Costa Rica. The remarkable transparency of these butterflies allows them to be invisible , and the antiglare coating of their wings helps to. view more
Credit: Nipam Patel
WOODS HOLE, Mass. Many animals have evolved camouflage tactics for self-defense, but some butterflies and moths have taken it even further: They ve developed transparent wings, making them almost invisible to predators.
A team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists studied the development of one such species, the glasswing butterfly, Greta oto, to see through the secrets of this natural stealth technology. Their work was published in the
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