Painted Lady Butterfly Dreams Photograph by Karen Adams

Painted Lady Butterfly Dreams

by Karen Adams

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Framed Print

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Art Print

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Weekender Tote Bag

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Spiral Notebook

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Title

Painted Lady Butterfly Dreams

Artist

Karen Adams

Medium

Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography

Description

I am thankful for the world around me that gives me scenes like this in my Ohio garden. I haven't changed the background or messed with the beauty of those tall purple verbena plants behind this lovely little American Painted Lady butterfly.

My favorite old hymn echoes through my head many days when I view this world:

For the beauty of the earth
For the Glory of the skies
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise!

This is a portrait of a Painted Lady butterfly(Vanessa cardui) and shows the ventral view of this butterfly. 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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Thank you so much to the administrators of the following groups for featuring this Painted Lady on their group home page:

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