Is Blue an actual colour??
I know it's a weird post to start out with,but it's one of the most fascinating things I have ever researched about.Lets start out with butterflies , one of the most beautiful and enthralling insects on this planet. Butterflies are one of the few insects which show a huge diversity of colours and brightness on its wings. Actually the wing that u see on a butterfly is made up of scales, which are modified hairs. Butterflies are of the order Lepidoptera ( from the Greek lepis meaning scale and pteron meaning wing) Butterflies wings can indicate a number of things like to ward of other predators, or presenting itself as a male or to represent itself as toxic. Normally butterfly's wing colours are of two categories- pigmented and iridescent. Pigmented colours{molecules which absorb all colours and reflect the colour which we see} are like brown , yellow,orange etc. These colours are caused due to the diets of the butterflies (just like if flamingo's appear pink ...