What Gives the Morpho Butterfly Its Magnificent Blue? | Deep Look

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It's watching videos like these that make me want a 4K monitor

[@Tymdek]

Your videos always remind me how unbelievably impressive nature is and how much we must proect our planet in order to preserve it. Great job. :)

[@adirondackErin]

If you did one on how a baby's eyes change color, that would be cool, and interesting.

[@warwolf715]

That'd be awesome. My eyes changed from blue to green when I was around the age of eight.

[@spunkywarrior777]

I heard when i was born i had both blue eyes and a couple months after birth one eye turned brown it came from waardenburg syndrome. Its very rate for people too have 2 different colored eyes too.

[@Oscar4u69]

having two different colors in the eyes sounds so cool!

[@joshuajackson4742]

It’s the build up of pigment in the eye.

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[@Iamafafr]

Butterflies can't see their own wings & don't how beautiful they are. People are butterflies.

[@angelobello-an471]

Kikimakashi Fire But butterflies doesn't destroy other animal's habitats/homes, thus making people less of a butterfly. 😢

[@CatSmithers]

Ghelo Bello-an lol so do many other animals, who play with their food and like to torture it to death. Somehow animals are just all magical creatures who smile and hold hands in nature????

[@nearh.2532]

That's true for most people.

[@mr.noname6109]

May be they communicate with each other and tell each other how beautiful they are .

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[@debbiekreutzinger9434]

I have wondered about this beautiful butterfly all my life. very easy to understand,

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Thank you, Debbie!

[@nsr5961]

DEBBIE KREUTZINGER these butterflies are truly a flying gem.

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Thank you!

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This channel taught me more than my bio class in school

[@luckdragongirl]

In fairness to your biology teacher (and I'm guessing this was high school level or general biology classes in college to meet a science requirement), biology is a huge subject. It has the most diverse range of topics of any of the hard sciences. I have a Bachelor's in biology, and you really would not get to hear about the appearance of blue in insects in any class until you got to the higher level ones or graduate level ones. Even then, you would have to take the correct class to have it covered. Meaning, if you are taking a class specifically on the biosphere, this would not come up.

[@poobertop]

I could stare at those wings through a microscope for hours.

[@anacampserote84]

i'm just staring at this such a beautiful butterfly and smiling

[@MrMonsterRain]

i had a perfect night to play guitar for the first time in a while. Thennn I saw one of these videos and now think I have watched them all, if not, most. Fascinating stuff and fantastic videos. Keep up the good work. At this rate, I will get nothing accomplished.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Oops! Sorry but thanks for the kind words.

[@DahEpicAsian]

1:21 those are some long eyelashes.

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

Wow-

[@KQEDDeepLook]

*What Gives the Morpho Butterfly Its Magnificent Blue?* What does it mean to be blue? The wings of a Morpho butterfly are some of the most brilliant structures in nature, and yet they contain no blue pigment -- they harness the physics of light at the nanoscale. Learn more about these butterflies from producer Jenny Oh Hatfield at KQED SCIENCE: goo.gl/dGo5XE SUBSCRIBE: goo.gl/8NwXqt

[@azerohiro]

tl;dr these butterfly wings reflect blue light from the sun.

[@yasserd0153]

Zheng Zu of god's nature

[@KerpooHater]

Before i watch the video,as i know its from their diet of rotten fruit and fish.

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UtkuDaKid :D hahaha lol

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Ur videos are sooo good. Can we get other than biology videos too coz it will be cool

[@Yakubi]

Anyone else here who used to think butterflies were so beautiful until you saw that one Spongebob episode...?

[@owhebitme.5343]

The zoom in wasn't a butterfly, it was a horsefly

[@wesleysantiago1019]

No

[@unwanted8356]

you mean the Wormy episode?

[@mislavgrosinic5584]

What?

[@pilotreg]

The zoom in was a horsefly.

[@afshan727]

The ways you guys make each video..makes me think how magnificent ..nature is? you guys are doing a great job!! really appreciate your work team deep look!!

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Thanks!

[@falconhawk6380]

How magnificent god is who made all these beauties

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@@falconhawk6380 nature is god

[@ryzenryne8747]

Phone manufacturers be like: "Let's make a phone back glass that looks like the colors of that butterfly."

[@raynapereira6312]

That's one beautiful butterfly!

[@transientwayfarer4472]

Like most all of your videos, this has enough beauty to make one shiver! Thank you for allowing us a glimpse into these extraordinary microcosms.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

+Transient Wayfarer Thanks so much for the wonderful feedback!

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"so they figured out a way" I wonder what way.

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WOW 2160p, Beautiful video!

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[@multigrandmarquis]

This video was in my recommended because I looked up videos of the Morpho Knight battle from Kirby Star Allies. But I’m grateful for the lesson, however unexpected!

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This channel needs to have wayy more subscribers and views!!! Such quality content!

[@kittie-star1151]

I’m currently playing a butterfly sanctuary game called Flutter 🦋. All of the butterflies featured in the game are real and the Blue Morpho is a butterfly that you can unlock.

[@andy118111]

Inspiring to see 1:42 the guy with the microscope wears gauges in his ears.

[@fig1]

University of California, Berkeley's Nipam Patel is exploring nanostructures in butterfly wings and how these give certain species of this insect a remarkable blue color without using any pigment.

[@taylorvalerygrenier5621]

i'm intrigued about kiwi birds. If you ever consider this topic

[@Faithspective]

That is really cool.

[@HarmonicVector]

"My father was a boozed-up socialite who collected butterflies in his copious spare time!"

[@bendythedancingdemon2941]

Many years ago at the Detroit Zoo in the Butterfly exhibit one of these Butterflies landed on my face and scared me for a split second! XD

[@objectionableconform]

my favorite butterfly

[@chantheborraschea5871]

0 : 50 what butterfly is that next to the blue morpho butterfly

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Deep Look, I like all of your videos!

[@victoriabelanga15]

Iridescent butterflies are so cool 🤭😩

[@Boomshankarim]

So are you saying that the surface of the human blue eye has structural ridges on a micro level that produce a constructive interference similar to the Morpho butterfly? I really enjoy your videos, I only wish they were longer :)

[@punishalltrolls]

It reflects light like a CD. Blue eyes have little melanin.

[@omgIoIwtf]

They were completely off the ball mentioning the human eye. The color of ones eye has everything to do with how much melanin is in the eye to give it its dark pigmentation. There’s literally surgery that can be done to remove melanin and have blue eyes yourself. Everyone has blue eyes. But not everyone has melanin pigmentation. Think about that.

[@combrider]

No,they are only saying that color blue is rare in nature. Nothing to do with scales or ridges.

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I JUST FOUND ONE YESTERDAY I FELT VERY LUCKY!

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Max from "Life is strange " was here :))

[@chocmilkshake24]

Life is so weird. I watched this very video yesterday, and boom I saw such a butterfly today. What a coincidence, huh?

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Awesome!

[@SadatEverything]

Why is Blathers scared of these things and not Sharks?

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[@StuartSafford]

I saw a picture of a blue butterflyposted by Stephie H., and had to see if it was a Blue Morpho. It is interesting to see the science of the color.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Stuart Safford Unless you've seen one in person, it is hard imagine how blue these butterflies are.

[@sheilamore3261]

Oh my goodness yes the blue butterfly is one of my favorite it is got the most beautiful is blue absolutely gorgeous thank you for sharing🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

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[@tomitstube]

as cute as they look otters are pretty ferocious.

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wow ! this is amazing !!😍😴💖

[@maddiekoester7785]

Blue Morphos are my favorite.

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[@Roguepanda79]

The tiny Christmas trees on the wings are actually called Lamillea

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Wow its so beautiful😍😍

[@DerekWalkerz]

so freaking beautiful work

[@music2thePpl]

No ones asking or no one saw it i need answers to this 1:23 the pupae appears to have tiny little eyes on the outside bottom side? Im am stumped because those two tiny little things clearly look like eyes

[@doliaclemente1366]

I love morpho butterfly Especially the Aurora morpho

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I don't understand a single word in these video. But it totally amazes me❤️😆

[@Alexander-eu8kl]

Simply unbelievable and stunning

[@RAMSBR001]

Excuse me, I must reflect on this newfound infomation.

[@JacobReiter1]

Saying that pigmentation color and structural color are different is kind of a misnomer, all color absorption and emission represent underlying structural properties (wavelength to atomic structure). It would be better to say that its "structural interference" created color. Color is just a phenomena of our minds create to represent different electromagnetic waves captured at various frequencies and intensities by cones and rods in our eyes transmitted to the brain over optical nerve for processing. At a certain level it all becomes structural. Generally the colored light generated off of the reflection of a pigmented object is due to the non uniform absorption of electromagnetic energy which causes the "frequency pool" of originating wave to be changed from it's previous state. Regular light absorption is structural, light reflected or absorbed based on the dimensions and arrangement of atomic structures. This is why color is useful to us, because by using the color shift caused by structures, we can infer what something is made of (Absorption spectrography & spectrographs). The blue butterfly parts have their own reflective and refractive properties but they don't match the underlying atomic structure of the petals because of the prisms created that cause most of the non blue visible light to be cancelled out, this is why when sufficiently damaging or "wetting" the petals, the color changes because it cancels out the prism effect of the "Christmas tree" structures in the wing petals. Crushing "pigments" doesn't cause the color of the pigment to change because the atomic structure of a pigment is uniform and does not rely on super structures to create modifying prisms, so at any break point we can expect the same absorption behavior

[@you2tooyou2too]

Is indigo a structural color? Although it is called a dye, it appears to change with angle like the SC of butterfly, & humming bird colors.

[@you2tooyou2too]

@@krkzv The answer is, 'It can be.' Both jeans & the Morpho B. are indigo. I learned from a research entomologist I recently met at the Agricultural RC near Middleburg, that moths & butterflies use both pigments & structural colors. So "Indigo" is both a plant dye, and a narrow range of visible light frequencies. It is also possible to coat fibers with a (uniformly?) thin layer of transparent material (just as carnival glass is) rather than (or in addition to?) a dye, to give it structural colors.

[@stephannouno3039]

Looks so beautiful

[@friendrequest6030]

this must have been the most interesting fact i hsve ever heard.

[@thecamocampaindude5167]

HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THISSSS

[@binoddangol3364]

That means if you come to touch this beautiful butterfly you won't get your hands get imparted blue coloured thing??

[@skolex3121]

1:52 What is *a phenomena*?

[@Tracy_tuber]

Incredibly designed

[@Jarjarvideos]

Gah! you guys don't go deep enough! I'm always left with more questions! XD Is blue a harder pigment to create biologically? do the beetles and birds use the same scale method for creating their blue? Or a different structure? And how are blue eyes created? Are they made with structure while brown eyes are made with pigment? Or are all eyes made with either or???

[@you2tooyou2too]

I have a theological notion that the god of the gaps created an infinitely complex universe (look up fractal) so that there will always be gaps for God (if we wish), and for better questions to be asked, so we can explore and grow forever. 😃

[@gabxp3095]

Are we just not gonna acknowledge they tore a butterflies wing off

[@Chibi_Nagisa]

So that's why they called the giant mech Morpho cuz of the blue wings also the Morpho butterfly is beautiful because of the blue color

[@shikou_melanite]

It has got to be one of my favourite mechs in the anime, just from the sheer beauty of it alone

[@ljmastertroll]

Amazing.

[@josephcastro4199]

Simply beautiful...

[@raffynguyen]

now thats why they say ‘pretty is on the inside’

[@aramariaflo]

The blue wings butterfly looks like Mothra spreading her wings behind the waterfalls and her wings became blue

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[@RineshAndrews]

This is amazing !

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Thanks, Rinesh!

[@cosmo152]

WHAT'S THE USE IN FEELING BLUE

[@nike4134]

only blue diamond know

[@baroonono]

always always always amaaazing

[@lexia4016]

I have Morpho Butterfly phobia...they are so blue that it scares me

[@kupkake433]

The olive wing butterfly is one with a real blue pigment on its wing

[@biblicallyaccurateangel2476]

are there any other metallic butterflies?

[@maxxam3590]

Yes, there's the Iron Butterfly.

[@kvd1]

Blue color is rare in nature, unless you’re a aphid ,which aphids can be any color you can imagine, including cyan and magenta or even transparent. If we find the largest aphid we can harvest that honeydew and we can make it into drinks or sweeteners.

[@saapnaredd3825]

My first video on KZbin and was the best!

[@Rickiye]

A Butterfly, but with a ball gown. Amazing.

[@prismus6520]

What’s the use of being, Blue? - me to a morpho butterfly

[@metinhanay2785]

This evolution guy is very intelligent. Even more intelligent than us.

[@kalynm2004]

They're mostly called "Great Blue Emperor Butterflies."

[@knurdisms]

Is it the same story with the blue in peacock feathers?

[@KQEDDeepLook]

Yes.

[@alyak918]

beautiful

[@I_love_jesus823]

This is so cool

[@NinjabeeRedtricity]

I know this is random, but can a butterflies tongue regenerate? sorta off topic, but it would be nice to get an answer.

[@NicholasJJackson]

dendrobates tinctorius azureus Why is this animal blue? The pigment or fractal lighting?

[@Pitachips22]

is anyone else here deathly afraid of butterflies? i feel like i'm alone in being afraid of butterflies, i know there are more people with a fear of moths than me but what about butterflies?

[@goodforyou]

So if the butterfly go to a forest they will look green?

[@EllaTrigger]

U know my cousins and I love blue colour but I attend to be a environmentally animal lover! Than them So this butterfly is beautiful 🦋

[@michellemohwinkle9394]

I like this I watch it from my GT teachers links.

[@DiegoM265]

But everything works this way, not just this beautiful butterfly. Even the pigments of others butterflies works the same way. A pigment absorb and reflect specific wavelenghts of light, producing the specific color of the pigment.

[@thanatoast]

We shall be reborn

[@Lemonidas75]

I wonder how our technology could benefit from researching the fascinating way nature works in this case. I'm sure scientists could think of a few ways !

[@ashtonvickers928]

The scales up close look like sequins

[@aestheticyousra9831]

I love butterflys

[@DRiungi]

wait, i thought eye color was due to pigmentation and at the end you say it's due to structural color? help me out here.

[@KQEDDeepLook]

It can be none, all, or both. E.g. blue-eyed people have little to no pigment.

[@TheShiz9797]

Brown and black eye color is created by the pigment melanin. Green and blue eye color is created through structure.

[@you2tooyou2too]

@@TheShiz9797 So that if there is enough dark pigment, the eye color is darker, overwhelming the light blue structure.

[@bayan6325]

Omg wat a beautiful pigment

[@gargaduk]

Which one?

[@johnjhill3]

How much intense mental effort would need to be applied to replicate these structures? Yet millions of people think this all happened by accident. That is as much an act of faith (in the god of Luck) as any belief in intelligent design.

[@ChiquitaSpeaks]

i agree with you. And millions of these elegant and wondrous structures are throughout creation.

[@kikuhonda64]

It wasn't an "accident," it was naturally selected by nature. Yes, the original mutations that brought upon the changes were accidental, but the fact that they remained and were not eliminated was not accidental. Hence, "natural selection"

[@johnjhill3]

Saying it was "selected" implies that 'Nature' has an intention toward an end result. Intention means there is a consciousness at work. Thus, you are deifying Nature.

[@kikuhonda64]

John Hill What I mean by nature "selecting" something is that all the different organisms that make up nature just happen to work a certain way. If an organism happens to have a disadvantage because it does not harmonize with other organisms, then it will just die off.

[@desenhointelig1243]

!Shion For the nature to "select" a favorable trait, it must first come into existence... How does such features form by random processes and chance?

[@IDEPRIMUS]

Amazing wow