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Painted Lady

Vanessa cardui

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Field Notes

Description:

Orange, black and white butterfly with brown eyes.

Habitat:

Lantana in the front yard

Notes:

Wikipedia - "V. cardui is one of the most widespread of all butterflies, found on every continent except Antarctica and South America."

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Comments (5)

Thank you darceyangel. This beautiful butterfly stayed around for about 5min so I was able to get quite a few shots in. I never raised butterflies. I should since I have quite a big aphid problem :)
I love these butterflies! I raised one in second grade. Great camera work
Ashish, It's apparently one of the most widespread butterflies in the world according to Wikipedia. Thank you Thurd13!
Beautiful series + butterfly
Cindy... Your spotting is telling its widest distributed Organism... Same like here in India.... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7410249

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