Bright-Eyed Butterfly

Take a trip to an insectarium. With the help of a glow-in-the-dark butterfly, evolutionary biologist Antonia Monteiro is studying the origin of butterfly eyespots--her research suggests eyespots are more closely related to limbs than to eyes. What did you think of the video? Images courtesy of Antonia Monteiro and W. H. Piel, 2005. Produced by Flora Lichtman. Viewed 1554 times.

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