Diseased? Shopped? Or Awesome?

[CityofAngels]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2286/1561440998_59ed334df2.jpg
Diseased? Shopped? Or Awesome?
I can't decide....

[Mickword]

I think its a little bit of all other them it is probably diseased.

[camera]

it looks shopped & its deffo awesome.

[CityofAngels]

How about "Real"?

[lick]

real imo

[Amzoe]

Possibly shopped.

But tbh it's an animal, if you saw a black Rabbit, would you say it's shopped?
It's not, because there are black Rabbit's, lols.

[LucasLuke]

Obviously photoshopped! You can see the blury bits around the wings and if it had bits of its wings missing how would it be able to fly? :S

[Gullable]

omg omg omg!!!
i absoloutley hate flying insects ( bees, wasps, dragonflys, butterflies are the worst they try to get in my hair.
also its REAL.
Glasswing Butterfly(Greta Oto) is a brush-footed butterfly where its wings are transparent. The tissue between the veins of its wings looks like glass. They are found in the range which extends throughout Central America into Mexico
http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif
(http://www.hemmy.net/2006/04/30/glasswing-butterfly/#)http://www.hemmy.net/2006/04/30/glasswing-butterfly/

[ItsDave]

Thats real, just has a very very thin membrane, therefore you can see through it. Very scary, I hate butterflies.

[Fehm]

Obviously photoshopped! You can see the blury bits around the wings and if it had bits of its wings missing how would it be able to fly? :S

It's bit of transparent wing lol, theres not bits missing its the colour lol There is none

Awesome.

[Mentor]

Would suspect its real, the slight blurryness/discolouration on what you see through it is just the texture of the transparent membrain :)

May be wrong, but there are far weirder animals out there

[Gullable]

its real iposted a reply but noone listened ;)

[Fifteen]

http://othersiderainbow.blogspot.com/2006/04/rare-butterfly-with-transparent-wings.html

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/The_Wizard_of_OZ/butterfly_thumb1.jpg

If you go on the link you can view the images full size and zoom in.

Maybe it is real?

[ItsDave]

They are real, it just has a very thin membrane, therefore you can see through it. Its not photoshopped at all. They're just rare to find.

[GommeInc]

... Anyone ever thought that this butterfly actually exists? It's called a Greta Oto or The Glasswing butterfly from the Brust-footed butterflies family, same as the Agrias Butterfly.

Diseased? No.
Shopped? No.
Awesome? Hardly - it has transparent wings for the same purpose as many other animals - birds of prey, stick insects and typically loads of female animals and creatures - to blend in with its environment.

Seriously, does no-one play Animal Crossing here to learn about these sorts of things? :P I am shocked at how little some people know about the odd animals out there, and this isn't one of them :S I find the Coconut Crab to be somewhat bizarre and something you wouldn't expect to be real, or that spider (or scorpion?) in Iraq called the Camel Spider which is one freaky creature :S

EDIT: Also, the background behind it is out of focus, which will explain why it does look shopped.