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Painted Lady Butterfly

Vanessa cardui

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Field Notes

Description:

The painted lady, is a large butterfly identified by the black and white corners of its mainly deep orange, black-spotted wings. It has five white spots in the black forewing tips and while the orange areas may be pale here and there, there are no clean white dots in them. The hindwings carry four small submarginal eyespots on the dorsal and ventral sides.

Habitat:

Seen at valley of flowers.

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PublishedSeptember 18, 2019

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