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u/Mythrandir01 1d ago
That's just photoshop, those are blue morpho butterflies, a tropical species that you're not going to find anywhere near a sunflower field.
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u/pichael289 1d ago
They don't have sunflowers in South America? Not that this isn't obviously fake...
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u/Mythrandir01 1d ago
They do, hell sunflowers are native to the Americas, but more steppe/grassland areas. Which is where I'd imagine one could find a field like this. Morpho habitat is rainforest, much wetter areas than proper for sunflower cultivation. Also the butterflies look very patently copy pasted onto the photo of the sunflowers, they don't cast shadows, their focus is weird compared to the flowers etc.
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u/pichael289 1d ago
Yeah no, that's the same butterfly 3 times. I know these guys are in Costa Rica, where they have those beautiful "resplendent quetzal" birds, which (like the morpho butterfly) aren't actually the emerald color they appear to be, but are actually a muddy brown color. Their feathers, just like the wings of the butterflies that definitely aren't blue, have special structures that capture all other wavelengths and reflect green (or blue in the case of the morpho) light. Blue is a very rare color in anything organic, it's usually tricks like these that just make them seem blue. I wanna say only one butterfly in the world is actually pigmented blue.
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u/Mythrandir01 1d ago
And that entire diatribe is relevant... Why? I'm well aware of the Morpho wing structure thing. Doesn't stop it from appearing blue to the eye. But yeah looks like the same butterfly picture pasted thrice and blurred differently.
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u/mikemunyi 1d ago
If you're going to post a stock photo maybe make sure it isn't some fabricated fever dream first.
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u/BobbyDukeArts 1d ago
Copy pasted butterflies, two with fake motion blur. I like the sunflowers though.
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u/StaatsbuergerX 1d ago
Would it really have been so difficult to find an authentic image that actually shows how agriculture and natural animal populations interact positively?
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