Single Butterfly Wing Scale

[Tom Narwid]

Butterfly wings are made of row upon row of scale. This is a image of a single scale.
Interestingly it shows how the color we see is constructed.
This image was recorded with a AMscope Microscope and 14 megapixel ccd camera and a 50x Plan objective.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Wild image, that's some magnification.

 

[JimFox]

That's so amazing Tom! Love the detail in this. it almost looks like it's made out of aluminum foil!

 

[AlanLichty]

It would be hard to ID what we are looking at with an image taken at this scale. Fascinating view.

 

[Amy Earl]

Holy moly. This is so cool Tom!