Insect dust becomes a gallery of tiny sculptures

An elongated paddle-shaped butterfly scale with a narrow stalk and rows of swollen ridges.

Blue butterfly: a paddle with beaded ridges

A broad rounded bristle-tail scale with close parallel ridges and small cross marks.

Bristle-tail: parallel ridges across a broad scale

A narrow butterfly scale tapering to a pointed tip with a long fringe around its sides.

Pieris butterfly: a fringe around the tip

Many oval beetle scales grouped on a dark wing-case surface.

Diamond beetle: oval scales across dark bands

Blue butterfly: a paddle with beaded ridges
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Bristle-tail: parallel ridges across a broad scale
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Pieris butterfly: a fringe around the tip
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Diamond beetle: oval scales across dark bands
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Insect dust becomes a gallery of tiny sculptures

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