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Look at the wings first. A glasswing’s clear panels let the background show through, an owl butterfly wears an eyespot on the underside, and a luna moth trails long green tails. Open-wing views show the colors and shapes across the full wingspan. Side views are here for patterns you would miss from above.

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Chrysiridia rhipheus
Chrysiridia rhipheus: This Madagascan sunset moth shows bands of green, gold, and magenta even with its wings folded. The…
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Monarch butterfly
Monarch butterfly: With the wings open, the monarch’s black veins divide the orange into broad panels. The small dark marks…
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Greta oto
Greta oto: Green from the leaf behind the glasswing shows through its clear wing panels. The rusty borders and the opaque…
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Attacus atlas
Attacus atlas: An atlas moth spreads its rust-brown wings below its cocoon. The tips of the front wings hook outward, and…
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Morpho menelaus
Morpho menelaus: This spread blue morpho specimen from Pará, Brazil, looks deep cobalt on one side and turquoise on the…
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Trogonoptera brookiana
Trogonoptera brookiana: Both male Rajah Brooke’s birdwings in this photograph from Malaysia have their wings open. The…
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Queen Alexandra's birdwing
Queen Alexandra's birdwing: This museum specimen shows the narrow forewings of a male Queen Alexandra’s birdwing from…
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Aglais io
Aglais io: A peacock butterfly opens its wings on blackthorn in Oxfordshire, England. Two eyespots sit high on the red…
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Caligo telamonius memnon
Caligo telamonius memnon: The large ring on this owl butterfly’s folded hindwing looks like an eye. A much smaller dark…
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Luna moth
Luna moth: The pale green luna moth rests against weathered wood with its hindwing tails hanging down. In experiments…
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Dryocampa rubicunda
Dryocampa rubicunda: On this rosy maple moth from Missouri, pale yellow wings show through broad pink margins. The same two…
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Graellsia isabellae
Graellsia isabellae: A Spanish moon moth hangs below pine needles near Madrid. Dark pink lines run through the green wings…
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Comet moth
Comet moth: In this photograph from Madagascar’s Vohimana reserve, the comet moth’s long hindwing tails drop below a row of…
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Hyalophora cecropia
Hyalophora cecropia: Two cecropia moths hang from a twig in Maine. The white crescents and rusty bands stand out on the…
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Deilephila elpenor
Deilephila elpenor: A side view of this elephant hawk-moth in Oxfordshire, England, shows the rose-pink stripe along its…
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Cinnabar moth
Cinnabar moth: The folded wings of a cinnabar moth show a crimson stripe near the leading edge and two red spots near the…
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Acherontia atropos
Acherontia atropos: This death’s-head hawkmoth in Austria keeps its dark forewings folded. Their mottled gray and brown…
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Dysphania militaris
Dysphania militaris: This false tiger moth in Laos holds its yellow wings open. The front wing tips turn dark blue with…
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Graphium agamemnon
Graphium agamemnon: A tailed jay holds its wings flat, showing pale green spots and short tails. The dots follow the dark…
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Papilio blumei
Papilio blumei: The spread wings of this preserved Sulawesi swallowtail have broad blue bands against a dark background…
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Siproeta stelenes
Siproeta stelenes: The malachite’s broad lime-green patches make a broken band across the open wings. Smaller green marks…
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Heliconius charithonia
Heliconius charithonia: This zebra longwing in Florida spreads narrow black wings crossed by cream stripes. A row of pale…

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