Tiny light-scattering structures that give today’s butterflies and moths their brilliant hues date back to the days of the dinosaurs. Fossilized mothlike insects from the Jurassic Period bear textured ...

Ultrasound absorbers: false-colour 3D representation of a 0.21×0.28 mm wing section of the moth Lasiocampa quercus showing the structure, diversity, and arrangement of base scales (orange) and cover ...

Researchers in Germany have found the earliest known fossil evidence of insects from the order Lepidoptera. By analyzing a drilled sediment core that dates to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, they ...

From within rocks, a few dozen fossils nearly too small to see with the naked eye can tell an important history of the evolution of moths and butterflies. About 200 million years ago, an ancient ...

Experts at the University of Bristol have discovered that the scales on moth wings act as excellent sound absorbers even when placed on an artificial surface. Experts at the University of Bristol have ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...life-microscope.html<BR><BR>I like the one of the moth wing scales the most so far, and think the first one should be in a FPS somewhere.

IN making some experiments a short time ago, I came across a fact of which I was hitherto ignorant. I wished to test the effect of acid on the colours of the wings of a butterfly or moth, and with ...