Beauty in nature
Wendy Liu may have drawn one of the more soothing assignments in the HHMI summer fellows program. She spends her days in the Fred Nijhout lab pondering the wondrous complexity of developing butterfly wings under a microscope. The larvae, well they aren’t so attractive, but the wings are “one of the most fascinating and gorgeous elements found in nature.”
July 13th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
this is actually a precis wing disk, the larvae (link) is a manduca. Precis is the smaller, spiny, dark catepillar