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Painted lady butterfly, vanessa cardui on flower green background

a butterfly feeds on nectar in the Annapurna region of Nepal

(Vanessa cardui) The Painted Lady butterfly is also known as the Thistle butterfly, Painted Beauty, and Cosmopolitan Butterfly. Preferred host plants are thistles, mallows, lupines and potato blooms. adults feed on the nectar of Canada thistle, chokecherry, mints, dandelions and asters.

Painted lady butterfly feeding on sunlit yellow flower in late summer/early fall. One of the most widespread butterflies in the world. Taken in Connecticut in September, this photo shows the beautiful underwing.

Butterflies - Painted Lady & Pink Zinnia

Close up of Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui

The painted lady Vanessa cardui , meadow

Closeup of a Gulf Fritillary butterfly feeding on red tubular flowers in a Florida garden

Painted lady butterfly, isolated on white background

Great spangled fritillary on joe-pye weed in summer, top or dorsal view, showing the pattern on the back of the wings. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. Fritillary is also a checkered flower.

Butterfly burdock on a yellow flower (Vanessa cardui, Nymphalidae). Butterfly painted lady. Spring and summer background. Banner

$Vanessa cardui is a very common migrant that arrives from Africa every summer. Numbers fluctuate annually, depending on the reproduction in Africa.\nThe species is most likely to be seen in open areas were the vegetation has a mosaic structure, such as waste land, fallow ground and pasture land.\nit uses various species of Carduus, Arctium and Cirsium both as larval food plant and as a source of nectar.\n\nThis is a common Migration Butterfly in the Netherlands.$

Painted Lady Butterfly (Vanessa cardui), isolated

Early in the morning, dew-covered butterflies wait for the sun to come out and dry them to fly.

Battus philenor, the pipevine swallowtail or blue swallowtail, is a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America. This butterfly is black with iridescent-blue hindwings. Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona.

A blue Lycaenidae butterfly in close-up on a wildflower. Polyommatus icarus is a beautiful blue-colored pigeon. A butterfly sits on a blurred green background of grass. Macro photography of wildlife

Butterfly Marsh Fritillary. Euphydryas aurinia.

The blue color of the Common Blue butterfly is less evident when its wings are closed, but a distinct blue hue does show up. The detailed patterns on the wings are a marvel of the artistry of nature. This photographe was taken in the midday sunshine in Southern Quebec in summertime.

Red butterfly on flower, Glanville Fritillary, Melitaea cinxia

Vanessa cardui, a Painted Lady Butterfly, on a Drumstick Allium, Allium sphaerocephalon, basking to warm up in the sun, which has just come out.

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Southern White Admiral butterflies (Limenitis reducta) viewed on top

Great spangled fritillary seeming to smile as its proboscis goes into a flower of joe-pye weed. Sharply focused on the eyes and head. The butterfly's striking pattern inspires its name. The Latin word fritillus means chessboard or dice box. The spangles are the silvery white spots on the underwings.

A small copper butterfly bathes in the sunlight on yellow flowers in the meadow.

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