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    Vanessa cardui is the most widespread of all butterfly species. It is commonly called the painted lady, or formerly in North America the cosmopolitan....
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    Australian painted lady should be a subspecies of the painted lady (Vanessa cardui) due to the similarity in lifestyle and behaviour. Furthermore, the...
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    Cynthia (butterfly) (category Vanessa (butterfly))
    uppersides Vanessa cardui Vanessa kershawi Vanessa virginiensis Vanessa annabella Vanessa carye Comparison of the undersides Vanessa cardui Vanessa kershawi...
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    of four Vanessa species. Vanessa virginiensis is most easily distinguishable by its two large eyespots on the ventral side, whereas V. cardui has four...
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    Vanessa atalanta, red admiral Vanessa braziliensis, Brazilian painted lady Vanessa cardui, painted lady Vanessa carye, western painted lady Vanessa gonerilla...
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    Canada. The other two species are the cosmopolitan Vanessa cardui (painted lady) and the eastern Vanessa virginiensis (American painted lady). This species...
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    zinnias specifically to attract them. Hummingbird hawk-moth Aglais io Vanessa cardui Vanessa atalanta Aglais urticae Monarch butterfly Zinnias are popular garden...
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    generalists or specialists. While butterflies like the painted lady (Vanessa cardui) are known to consume over 200 plants as caterpillars, other species...
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    winter and attractiveness to butterflies, the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) in particular. A succulent bush growing over 2 m (6 ft) tall and wide...
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    300 to 400 kilometers in a single day. For example, the painted lady (Vanessa cardui) migrates from Africa to Spain aided by tail winds. That the migratory...
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    the noctuid moth Hypercompe hambletoni and the brush-footed butterfly Vanessa cardui, the painted lady. The Bidens mottle virus, a plant pathogen, was first...
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    Carduelis carduelis, and supports the larvae of the Painted Lady butterfly Vanessa cardui. Some other common species are Cirsium arvense, Cirsium palustre, Cirsium...
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  • categories which can be found almost anywhere around the world Cosmopolitan (Vanessa cardui) or painted lady, a butterfly Cosmopolitan (Leucania loreyi) or false...
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  • tortoiseshell, Nymphalis milberti American lady, Vanessa virginiensis Painted lady, Vanessa cardui Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta Common buckeye, Junonia coenia...
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  • Cosmopolite (album) a 1956 album by Benny Carter Cosmopolite (butterfly) (Vanessa cardui), also known as the painted lady Kosmopoliet, launched in 1854, said...
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    indica pholoe (Fruhstorfer, 1912) – south India This species resembles Vanessa cardui but the ground colour is darker both on the uppersides and undersides...
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    of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix quadrigemina and Vanessa cardui, the painted lady. The mallow flea beetle (Podagrica fuscicornis) is...
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    Painted lady, Vanessa cardui Peacock, Aglais io Plain tiger, Danaus chrysippus Question mark, Polygonia interrogationis Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta Small...
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    County, United States Callisaurus draconoides in Los Cabos, Mexico Vanessa cardui in Riverside County, United States Bombus sonorus in Phoenix, United...
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    host for the swamp metalmark (Calephelis muticum) and painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterflies. Many birds, including the American goldfinch eat the seeds...
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  • Subfamily: Nymphalinae Genus: Doleschallia Hypolimnas Junonia Kallima Kaniska Vanessa Subfamily: Satyrinae Genus: Amathusia Discophora Elymnias Heteropsis Lethe...
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    antiopa) American lady (Vanessa virginiensis) Painted lady (Vanessa cardui) West Coast lady (Vanessa annabella) Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) Common buckeye...
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    to 367 recorded on the Western Isles. Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) and painted lady (Vanessa cardui) are two of only seven species of butterflies, both...
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    of the American painted lady butterfly (Vanessa virginiensis) and the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui). Western pearly everlasting is sometimes...
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    VanOverbeke, Dustin R. "Nutritional Ecology of a Generalist Herbivore Vanessa Cardui Linnaeus Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae on Variable Larval and Adult Diets...
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    interrogationis), Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa), Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) and Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax), as well as such...
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    strong migration in Australia, migrate to New Zealand. The painted lady (Vanessa cardui) is a butterfly whose annual 15,000 km round trip from Scandinavia and...
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    almana is common. The lake is dried and grass grows on it, on which Vanessa cardui can be found. Colotis amata, Colotis danae, Colotis aurora, and Cepora...
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    octavia Protogoniomorpha parhassus Salamis anacardii Vanessa cardui Vanessa dimorphica Vanessa hippomene Catacroptera cloanthe Junonia terea Precis archesia...
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    World swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon) Painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) Pale crescent butterfly (Phyciodes pallida) Pale swallowtail butterfly...
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