Blue Bottle Fly
The common Blue Bottle Fly reveals unexpected beauty up close. Its body gleams with metallic blue and green hues that shine brilliantly in sunlight. While most people consider flies pests, these insects play crucial ecological roles as decomposers. Their compound eyes contain thousands of individual lenses. The iridescent colors come from light diffraction through microscopic structures in their exoskeleton, similar to how peacock feathers create color.