Insects - Images | Chien C Lee Wildlife Photography

All Galleries

Download Add to Cart

Insects 421 images Created 9 Jun 2016

View: 100 | All

Loading ()...

cld2012130.jpg
cld1928580.jpg
$The glass-like quality of a White-spotted Clearwing (Greta annette) becomes revealed against the dappled light of the cloud forest understory. Although a great variety of marine organisms utilize transparency as a functional means of underwater invisibility, this type of optical camouflage is rare among terrestrial species for several reasons. Animals not living in water must protect their internal organs from damaging UV light and also possess rigid structural support for their bodies because they live in a non-buoyant medium; both of these are accomplished by pigments and opaque structures. In addition, the refractive index between living tissues and air means that reflections of light are a potential problem. Clearwing butterflies overcome this last hindrance by having the transparent portions of their wings covered with randomly-sized microscopic “nanopillars” – this results in their wings being remarkably unreflective from nearly all angles. Researchers studying this propose that these butterfly wings could be applied as a model to increase the efficiency of solar cells and in the manufacture of other non-reflective surfaces. El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico.$

cld1815147.jpg
cld1810308.jpg
cld1710142.jpg
cld1503544.jpg
cld2206698.jpg
cld2206165.jpg
cld2204607.jpg
cld2114422.jpg
cld2113328.jpg
cld2111185.jpg
cld2108685.jpg
cld2009763.jpg
cld1929433.jpg
cld1922140.jpg
cld1917271.jpg
cld1914721.jpg
cld1911223.jpg
cld1910629s.jpg
cld1906902.jpg
cld1906873.jpg
cld1906708.jpg
cld1901713.jpg
cld1900765.jpg
cld1900656.jpg
cld1900646.jpg
cld1835590.jpg
cld1833886.jpg
cld1831504.jpg
cld1811234.jpg
cld1807963.jpg
cld1718297.jpg
cld1715923.jpg
cld1606643.jpg
cld1604649.jpg
cld1603686.jpg
cld1602452.jpg
cld1505301.jpg
cld1414015.jpg
cld1407567.jpg
cld1313320.jpg
cld1312415.jpg
cld1311984.jpg
cld1301252.jpg
cld08102202.jpg
cld2201000.jpg
cld2122832.jpg
cld2114353.jpg
cld2113368.jpg
cld2112877.jpg
cld2105463.jpg
cld2104523.jpg
cld2102607.jpg
cld2019018.jpg
cld2012999.jpg
cld2012337.jpg
cld2011437s.jpg
cld2011417.jpg
cld2011107.jpg
cld2010029.jpg
cld2007762.jpg
cld2006681.jpg
cld1933358.jpg
cld1929834.jpg
cld1929773.jpg
cld1928806.jpg
cld1928298.jpg
cld1926027.jpg
cld1925497.jpg
cld1925045.jpg
$With the color blue being so rare in nature, it’s an obvious choice if you want to really stand out from the crowd. The incredible coloration of this Eupholus weevil from the rainforests of New Guinea probably warns of its toxicity to predators, but in fact it actually possesses no blue pigment at all. Tiny scales which cover the beetle’s shell contain three-dimensional photonic crystal structures that refract light in a similar fashion to that of an opal stone. Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea).$

cld1912557.jpg
cld1912528.jpg
cld1911769.jpg
cld1911708.jpg
cld1910872.jpg
cld1909074.jpg
cld1907559.jpg
cld1907470.jpg
cld1907200.jpg
cld1907072.jpg
cld1907004.jpg
cld1905209.jpg
cld1901033.jpg
cld1834698.jpg
cld1831308.jpg
cld1829118.jpg
cld1827368.jpg
cld1825648.jpg
cld1825522.jpg
cld1824897.jpg
cld1824095.jpg
cld1814094.jpg
cld1813113.jpg
cld1812587.jpg
cld1812464.jpg
cld1811873.jpg
cld1809819.jpg
cld1809504.jpg
cld1808107.jpg

Chien C. Lee

Insects 421 images Created 9 Jun 2016

Loading ()...