You are looking at the wing of a butterfly. The wing is covered by tiny scales. The scales look large here because we are looking at an electron micrograph - a picture taken with a scanning electron microscope. Do you see how the wing scales are attached to the wing? Let's take a closer look at a wing scale.
This is how part of one wing scale looks. See how the scale is not a solid sheet, but made up of cross bars, like a lot of ladders hooked together. Not all wing scales look like this, but the scales of the butterflies that have very shiny colors that tend to shine bright and change in the light often have scales like this.
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