Butterflies and their Color Palettes

If you're not familiar with COLOURlovers (which I wasn't before my friend J.J. linked me to it), you must do so immediately. As you might guess it is a web site devoted strictly to colour (or color, depending upon your orientation to the Atlantic Ocean). There are places on the site to explore, find, and discuss color with other lovers of colour.

But what caught my eye was a blog entry entitled Colorful Beauty in Nature: Butterflies in which they've collected images of 18 butterflies alongside of which they display (and make available for download) their color pallettes. Brilliant.