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Butterfly Wings
11/20/2008 | 7m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
The Blue Morpho butterfly can change the color of its wings. Find out how!
Emily and Julie and are crazy about butterflies! At a trip to a museum butterfly house, they learn that their favorite butterfly, the blue morpho, can change the color of its wings from blue to green thanks to tiny, nanoscale structures on the wing surfaces. They test various butterfly wings to investigate which are colored by pigment or by structure.
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DragonflyTV is a local public television program presented by TPT
DragonflyTV
Butterfly Wings
11/20/2008 | 7m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
Emily and Julie and are crazy about butterflies! At a trip to a museum butterfly house, they learn that their favorite butterfly, the blue morpho, can change the color of its wings from blue to green thanks to tiny, nanoscale structures on the wing surfaces. They test various butterfly wings to investigate which are colored by pigment or by structure.
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