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Vanessa cardui
There were dozens of these Painted Lady butterflies feeding on the flower blossoms.
Feeding on flower blossoms in landscape area near Stowe Lake, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA.
Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the Painted Lady, or in North America as the Cosmopolitan. This butterfly has a strange pattern of flying in a sort of screw shape. Wikipedia
Spotted on Nov 23, 2013
Submitted on Dec 5, 2013
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