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The protagonist of today's story is really not ordinary, because it is another "world first".
Butterflies are the representatives of high-value insects, so how beautiful must the first beauty of butterflies be? Come on, show!
The protagonist appears, which is the goddess of light, the shining butterfly, who has the title of "the most beautiful butterfly in the world". Sigh, it's really beautiful.
The goddess of light, the shining butterfly, also known as the Helena flash butterfly, the face value of the butterfly world, is the veritable No.1 in the entire flash butterfly family. The entire wide wing has a blue-purple metallic luster, and it is not a constant blue-purple, the wings vary from the inside to the outside, and there will be different shades; there are white ribbons running through the forewings and hindwings, like a beautiful string of pearl necklaces; and there are several white dots on the edges of each wing chamber of the forewings as decorations, and the whole picture is beautiful.
I said I'm the most flashy, don't be convinced!
Even if we don't see the real thing, we can see through the photos what IT looks like. Some people may want to ask, where does this metallic luster come from? Why don't other butterflies have this shiny feeling? This brings us to the difference between butterflies in this family of butterflies and other butterflies.
Beautiful appearance, even more beautiful price!
The goddess of light has been auctioned for more than 40,000 US dollars, equivalent to a high price of 360,000 yuan, why is the price so high? That's because, before there was no intervention in artificial breeding, the number of wild goddess of light flash butterflies was very rare, and everyone understood the principle of "rare things are expensive", so there is a reason for being auctioned for high prices. In order to avoid extinction, as the Peruvian national butterfly, they have been involved in artificial breeding, so now we can see the goddess of light shining butterfly in the market are artificially bred and bred, the price is not as high as the original, but even so, the price of the goddess of light is still not low.
How did such a fairy's name come about?
This is related to Greek mythology, such a beautiful butterfly of course to have a matching name, biologists will be the Greek mythology of many goddesses named the butterfly, such as the goddess of joy, the moon goddess butterfly, the goddess of love butterfly and so on.