Painted Lady Butterfly Balancing Act Photograph by Karen Adams

Painted Lady Butterfly Balancing Act

by Karen Adams

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Title

Painted Lady Butterfly Balancing Act

Artist

Karen Adams

Medium

Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography

Description

It was late afternoon in August in my Ohio garden. I have had several Monarchs 'hanging' around my backyard for a couple of weeks, so when I saw the flash of orange I tried to not get excited too quickly! To my great joy though, I soon spotted that it was indeed a somewhat smaller butterfly, a Painted Lady! I really love these beauties and am seeing them much less often in recent years. This particular one was truly a gorgeous one!

I took as many shots as I could possibly click away before she was startled off by one of my grandkids and the dog. I was really happy with the composition and balance of this one.

This is a portrait of a Painted Lady butterfly(Vanessa cardui.) Identified by Linnaeus in 1758! This butterfly is a member of the family: Nymphalidae and
Subfamily: Nymphalinae.

The upperside is orange-brown with darker wing bases. The forewing has a black apex patch and white bar on the leading edge, while the hindwing has a submarginal row of 5 small black spots sometimes with blue scales. The underside has a black, brown, and gray pattern with 4 small submarginal eyespots. This dorsal view shows you the upperside of the painted lady's wings.

It is not a big butterfly......with a wing span of just 2 - 2 7/8 inches (5.1 - 7.3 cm)

These butterflies are found almost everywhere, especially in open or disturbed areas including gardens, old fields, and dunes. Their range covers all continents except Australia and Antarctica. From the deserts of northern Mexico, the Painted Lady migrates and temporarily colonizes the United States and Canada south of the Arctic. Occasionally, population explosions in Mexico will cause massive northward migrations.

The Painted Lady is also known as the Thistle Butterfly because of the caterpillars' food preference and also as the Cosmopolitan because it is the most widely distributed butterfly in the world.

Thank you so much for looking at my images. I appreciate that very much.

I am very concerned with our environment and have decided to donate any money I make from any sales of this image to the ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND.....because the Earth needs a good lawyer! We all need to speak up and support efforts to protect our environment. We will not get a second chance!

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I am happy to say that this image won Honorable Mention in judged competition of the Midwest Camera Club February 2019 competition. Theme: taken in Ohio.