Jul 19, 2006

Amapá, Brazil, 1959


Amapá, Brazil, 1959
Photograph by Paul A. Zahl
"Windowpane wings adorn a butterfly (Callitaera) visiting a hairy melastomad plant. Color-bearing scales are reduced to fine hairs, making the wings transparent except for four eyelike dots."
(Text and photograph from "Giant Insects of the Amazon," May 1959, National Geographic magazine)