{"id":131151,"date":"2021-11-24T07:23:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/peeking-into-a-chrysalis-incredible-videos-capture-butterfly-wings-forming-during-metamorphosis"},"modified":"2021-11-24T07:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:23:55","slug":"peeking-into-a-chrysalis-incredible-videos-capture-butterfly-wings-forming-during-metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/peeking-into-a-chrysalis-incredible-videos-capture-butterfly-wings-forming-during-metamorphosis","title":{"rendered":"Peeking Into a Chrysalis, Incredible Videos Capture Butterfly Wings Forming During Metamorphosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/peeking-into-a-chrysalis-incredible-videos-capture-butterfly-wings-forming-during-metamorphosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The findings could inform the design of new materials such as iridescent windows or waterproof textiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you brush against the wings of a butterfly, you will likely come away with a fine sprinkling of powder. This lepidopteran dust is made up of tiny microscopic scales, hundreds of thousands of which paper a butterfly\u2019s wings like shingles on a wafer-thin roof. The structure and arrangement of these scales give a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements.<\/p>\n<p>Now, MIT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The findings could inform the design of new materials such as iridescent windows or waterproof textiles. If you brush against the wings of a butterfly, you will likely come away with a fine sprinkling of powder. This lepidopteran dust is made up of tiny microscopic scales, hundreds of thousands of which paper a butterfly\u2019s wings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}