Glasswing Butterfly Greta oto
The Glasswing Butterfly looks like a flying stained-glass window with clear, transparent wings, black veins and an orange-brown border.
It has a white streak on the leading edge of the forewing.
Glasswings live in the rainforests of Central America and migrate long distances so that larval food plants are always in season.
They rarely open their wings at rest.
The green, glassy chrysalis of the Glasswing butterfly turns silver just before the crumpled butterfly emerges.
Glasswing butterflies newly-emerged from their chrysalides (now clear). One wonders how a butterfly of that size fits in such a tiny chrysalis.
Glasswing caterpillar, late stage.
Glasswing Caterpillar with its "alien eyes".
Glasswing Caterpillar, early stage, and Glasswing egg.