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The Color Patterns of Butterflies and Moths

The wing patterns are mosaics of tiny scales. A few simple rules guide the development of more than 100, 000 different patterns and provide an approach to the study of how animals develop

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 245 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “The Color Patterns of Butterflies and Moths” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 245 No. 5 (), p. 140
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1181-140