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Yellow and pink moth, Alypophanes iridocosma, Noctuidae

Photographed in Mandalay Rainforest, Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia

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Compared to other colors found in nature, true blues are pretty rare—but the indigo milk cap (Lactarius indigo) has just that! This vibrant mushroom gets its color from a pigment that is a derivative of guaiazulene, a dark blue crystalline hydrocarbon. You would think that its blueness is a marker for toxicity, but the mushroom is actually edible—although its color fades to a grayish hue when it’s cooked.

Photo: Andrey Loria, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

Himalayan Black-lored Tit (Machlolophus xanthogenys), family Paridae, order Passeriformes, HP, India

Photograph by Balaji P B