Butterfly scales under fluorescent excitation

pwnell · Post by **pwnell** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:28 pm

I was surprised to see the colours (except for the green) to mimic the actual colours of the scales. Red is now orange and black stays black. Cannot recall what butterfly this was - it was from the Papilionidae genus.

20130202-DSLR_IMG_0486.jpg by pwnell, on Flickr
Butterfly scales, 10x, FLUO-C4, ZS PMax

emsiem · Post by **emsiem** » Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:44 am

Is this autofluorescence? What kind of excitation light you used?
Love the colors!

pwnell · Post by **pwnell** » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:29 am

Yep, autofluorescence. I used a 330 - 480nm excitation source.

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:58 am

Interesting!

Rogelio