The Glasswing Butterfly lives in South America.
A butterfly with transparent wings is rare and
beautiful.

As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of
this rare tropical gem is used by rain forest
ecologists as an indication of high habitat quality
and its demise alerts them of ecological change.

Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass
window, the translucent wings of the Glasswing
butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes
of turquoise, orange, green, and red.

All things beautiful do not have to be full of colour to
be noticed; in life, that which is unnoticed has
the most power.