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Painted Lady

Vanessa cardui

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Description:

Very colorful butterfly, mainly orange, approx 6 to 7 cm in wingspan.

Habitat:

Here, found on edges and large forest pathwalk in our beautiful Bagasse forest (deciduous forest, predominantly oak) on France-Switzerland border, in a valley of lake Geneva, just in between Jura and Alps mountains ranges.

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Vanessa cardui - Wikipedia

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