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Painted Lady

Vanessa cardui

Description:

Medium sized orange, brown, black and white butterfly. Eyespots on hindwings. Somewhat scalloped edge to wings. Similar in appearance to the American Lady but has slight differences (see link for comparison).

Habitat:

Urban garden near the water.

Notes:

This butterfly was extremely active and wouldn't open his/her wings for me at a time where I could photograph them.

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1 Comment

MelissaFerguson
MelissaFerguson 11 years ago

I think this is beautiful!!

ForestDragon
Spotted by
ForestDragon

NYC, New York, USA

Spotted on Aug 25, 2012
Submitted on Aug 29, 2012

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