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Peeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales – EurekAlert

MIT engineers have continuously observed scales growing and assembling on a butterfly wing for the first time as the developing…

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If you brush against the wings of a butterfly, you will likely come away with a fine sprinkling of powder. This lepidopteran dust is made up of tiny microscopic scales, hundreds of thousands of which paper a butterfly’s wings like shingles on a wafer-thin…

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