Snowflake

Leucidia brephos

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae

A snowflake is a single ice crystal that is large enough to fall through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is because the many small crystal facets of the snowflakes scatter the sunlight between them.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Roger Rittmaster, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Roger Rittmaster · CC-BY DescriptionSnowflake, Wikipedia contributors

Snowflake

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