look at these STUNNING Transparent Butterflies

friend forwarded thse pics to me...i have never seen anything like them....have no idea where they are...but amazing.

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and last one

AWWWWW, they are so cute!!! where do they live? Here in th eUSA?

Anna .have no idea...i will have to search and see...but aren't they amazing...

Transparent Butterfly

Transparent winged butterflies similar species:

Greta oto , Oleria paula , Ithomia patilla , Pteronymia cotytto

It comes from central America and is found from Mexico to Panama. It is quite common in its zone, but it not easy to find because of its transparent wings, which is a natural camouflage mechanism.

Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Ithomiinae
Common name: The Glasswing

Bob I posted a Butterfly in the butterfly forum and said what is my name and people ID it right away. Why don't you ask them !

Transparent Butterflies — Tigard-Tualatin Schools 23J
A Butterflies wing color is due to tiny scales over a transparent membrane.
Transparent butterflies only have scales along the edges of their wings, ...
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WOW Bob really pretty

well we know what they are now...Allison...amazing aren't they...

Truely amazing and beautiful. Thanks for sharing.....Lauri

lauri..you're most welcome..i had never seen them before...amazing and beautiful

Sooooo Beautiful! I love butterflies. Don't know the actual spelling but pappion might be close. French for butterfly. It's pronounced pa (short a) pee - the end is a nasal sound pronounced by saying "own" but leaving the "n" sound off.

Pa pee own

Love that word.

nanna....me too...it's a musical word...

Nanna, I was skimming the threads this morning and wondered what kind of secret code Pa pee own was. Thought I was really missing something. Then I started reading back up the thread. ha ha. Have a good day!!!!

oh how pretty! i have never seen anything like them! i would love to see something like that in my garden :) i don't know a lot about butterflies but just love them! i have to tell my kitties no because i have seen both Windy and Breezy last week trying to capture the big yellow and black ones that are everywhere here. i can't stand to see them chasing them and both times last week they almost had them until i yelled NO BREEZY! NO WINDY! they catch field mice outside all the time and that i am proud of because i have never had one get inside but leave the beautiful butterflies alone.

thanks for sharing your pictures with all of us. they really are amazing!

kelly

kelly...a friend fwd these..and these surely are something...glad to share

Would still be neat to post them over in the Butterfly forum though Bob ! They have some of the coolest Butterfly's I've never seen. :))

allison...thanks...just trying to get everything together...i'll try and do it...bob

I had never heard of transparent butterflies. They are really beautiful

Sharon