Light absorbing efficiency of snowtail butterfly wings

In an effort to safeguard the earth's surroundings, scientist has been researching how to can scale back mankind dependency on fossil fuel. Some of the methods through which mankind dependency of fossil gasoline has been reduced are by means of the development of solar collectors.

Solar collectors are contraptions that absorb radiation from the sun. But as a way to develop the effectivity of the solar collector cells, scientist thought of imitating the light absorbing efficiency of the snowtail butterfly wing.

Snowtail butterflies continue to supply themselves heat during cold weather by way of spreading their wings in the sun during the day. The wings of the butterfly are made of black pigments that aids in the harvesting of sunlight. In addition to that, the microscopic structure of the wings which includes overlapping scales with honeycomb like holes helps in harvesting sunlight successfully and making the butterfly wings enormously black.

The wing of butterflies are one of the most delicate natural structures in the world but they've given scientist the concept of fortifying the light absorbing effectivity of solar collectors.