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Vanessa virginiensis
Spotted on Jun 21, 2014
Submitted on Jan 5, 2015
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Congrats! This spotting has been featured as a PN Fact of the Day!
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Project Noah Fact of the Day: Did you know that butterflies and moths have scales? They both belong to the order Lepidoptera which is derived from Ancient Greek λεπίδος (scale) and πτερόν (wing). Here you can see the miniature scales that cover the wing of an American lady butterfly (aka American painted lady).
American lady butterfly (Vanessa virginiensis) spotted in Iowa, USA by PN user LuckyLogan:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/116...
This is a lovely and interesting spotting. To make it complete, and useful to researchers using this site for data, please edit this and add a reference about this species in the reference field of your spotting. Please do this for each photo you post. Thanks for helping to make Project Noah a complete reference tool for scientists.
Pretty. Under the microscope right? I bought one too,