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Photo of the DayJuly 19, 2006
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Amapá, Brazil, 1959
Photograph by Paul A. Zahl
"Windowpane wings adorn a butterfly (Callitaera) visiting a hairy melastomad plant. Color-bearing scales are reduced to fine hairs, making the wings transparent except for four eyelike dots."

(Text and photograph from "Giant Insects of the Amazon," May 1959, National Geographic magazine)

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