Photo of tiger swallowtail butterfly wing scales

What is it?

02-01-2004 // NWF Staff

Swallowtail Butterfly wing

Photo by Dwight Kuhn

 

WHAT IS THIS? A collection of scales on a tiger swallowtail's wing, magnified 34 times.

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