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Green Jewel Beetle at 18 times.

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SigmaTog
OP SigmaTog Senior Member • Posts: 1,114
Re: Green Jewel Beetle at 18 times.

Thank you
No the colour mainly stays the same, just the intensity changes.

This article explains the many different ways 'structural colours' work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration

This is an example of a butterfly's scale that has bowel shaped depressions that reflect a combined blue & yellow.
It might be similar with the Green Jewel Beetle ?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Emerald_Swallowtail_Papilio_palinurus_scale_structure_diagrams.svg/800px-Emerald_Swallowtail_Papilio_palinurus_scale_structure_diagrams.svg.png

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