Blue Dragonfly Framed Specimen

Blue is a liar. Most things you think are blue, including the sky, aren't actually blue at all. They're just very convincing light tricks.

The Morpho dragonfly pulls the same stunt. Those metallic, iridescent wings contain zero blue pigment, and somehow they still look like something pulled from the deep end of a fever dream. The colour shifts as the light moves, going from electric to near-black depending on the angle you're viewing from. It's structural colour, a microscopic architecture of wing scales bending light into something your brain reads as vivid blue. Bits & Bugs sources and frames these specimens with genuine care, and the result is the kind of dark natural history object that belongs on the wall of anyone drawn to the weirder edges of the world.

Presented in a black shadow box frame, ready to hang. Specimen size and exact frame dimensions vary slightly with each individual insect. Sourced ethically and prepared by Bits & Bugs.