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The third butterfly, called the Emerald Swallowtail, is a deep green. However, the colour of all three butterflies switch to deep blue when seen from a different angle.

The same gene that turned peppered moths black to camouflage them during the industrial pollution is also behind colour variation in bright tropical butterflies, research shows.

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Autumn will be even more colourful this year thanks to an invasion of butterflies like the Clouded Yellow and Red Admiral flying in from Europe for the Indian summer.