But some species, like the glasswing butterfly, use mostly transparent wings to hide in plain sight. Transparency is the ultimate form of camouflage, says James Barnett, a behavioral ecologist at ...

A stunning photograph of a clearwing butterfly grasping the underside of a leaf has won a photography competition. The insect's transparent ... It defeated 139 other images to the title ...

The transparent surfaces on certain ... on the surface of the glasswing butterfly's wing as the cause of its low-reflective nature (Image: KIT/Radwanul Hasan Siddique) Previous studies have ...

For the butterfly-bent biologists and physicists, a lingering question has been: What exactly would have to change in those tiny transparent structures to make a dull-looking butterfly brilliant?