American lady

Whoopsie, half an edit.

It should be American Lady not Painted Lady.

Thanks for the heads up, Eric; I thought I had already edited.

im with bayucca on the i.d.

Beautiful! Great shots of that beauty :)

Awesome series!!!

According to BOA it is American Lady, which is in my opinion the better taxon than American Painted Lady, which is often used and probably not wrong, but not really "correct", since the Painted Lady is a completely different species and American Painted Lady may be confusing. Cynthia is an older, outdated name (like for example Nymphalis cardui).
http://butterfliesofamerica.com/vanessa_...

Binomail ID is Sub Genus specie Cynthia virginiensis

ID should be American Painted Lady or American Lady

It is the other one, Vanessa virginiensis. Look at the ventral view, Virginiensis has only 2 big spots whereas Cardui has 4 smaller spots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_car...

Cool.....

Nice job!

Great series! Beautiful!

Very pretty!