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Painted lady

Vanessa cardui

Photo by Chris Taklis
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Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the painted lady, or in North America as the cosmopolitan. This butterfly has a strange pattern of flying in a sort of screw shape.

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