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Butterfly and moth wings are covered by thousands of tiny scales that combine to create colorful wing patterns and enable the butterfly to find a mate, communicate and hide from predators.

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Cecropia Moth	Giant Swallowtail
Monarch	Painted Lady
Queen

African Blue-banded Swallowtail	African Moon Moth
Atlas Moth	Blue-banded Morpho
Blue Glassy Tiger	Blue Morpho
Brutus Charaxes	Chloe's Cracker
Chocolate Pansy	Clearwing
Clipper	Clouded Sulfur
Common Green Birdwing	Common Postman
Cracker	Flame Bordered Charaxes
Florida Atala	Giant Orange Tip
Greater Egg Fly	Great Mormon
Green-banded Peacock	Green Veined Charaxes
Indian Dead Leaf	Julia Longwing
Lacewing	Lesser Owl
Lowii Swallowtail	Luna Moth
Malachite	Metallic Blue Wave
Mocker Swallowtail	Orange-banded Shoemaker
Orchard Swallowtail	Owl
Paper Kite	Pink Rose
Red Rim	Scarlet Mormon
Sleepy Sulfur	Tailed Jay
White Morpho	Zebra Longwing

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