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 (DIR) Post #AW1XUWmG2b4NSby7c0 by sciencebase@mastodon.social
       2023-05-24T20:55:28Z
       
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       Adonis Blue
       
 (DIR) Post #AW1XUYqEMnR5rVqK5A by sciencebase@mastodon.social
       2023-05-25T16:56:18Z
       
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       This photo caused a flurry of interest in the bird cage...one inmate told me it couldn't be real as there are no blue pigments in nature except in one species of butterfly and that isn't that species.They would be almost right, but the colours of butterfly wings are mostly about iridescence not pigments.Lots of blue species here and in the RoW.Notably, the Morpho genus, which isn't just a single species, but a grouping of 29 species and almost 150 subspecies.