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Painted lady


Painted lady
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Copyright: Oana Otilia Saracutu (oanaotilia) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 309 W: 19 N: 506] (1682)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-09-20
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon EOS 400D, Canon EF 75-300 f/4.0-5.6 USM
Exposure: f/11, 1/640 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2009-10-03 10:42
Viewed: 278
Points: 20
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
One of the common butterfly, painted lady, but still, a beautiful one. On a sunday, I went "hunting" butterflies on a small nature rezerve around the Gent. But, in the way to that reserve, I stoped on the road margins (in fact, I was with the bike on special "roads" for bikes and I could easilly stop)and on some asteraceae plants I saw the Inachis io from the previous picture, the painted lady, I think also Colias and some little blue butterflies. I was really happy to find them. I hope you like this one.


Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Nymphalini
Genus: Vanessa
Subgenus: Cynthia
Species: V. (C.) cardui
It is one of the most widespread of all butterflies, found on every continent except Antarctica. In Australia, V. cardui has a limited range around Bunbury, Fremantle and Rottnest Island. However, its close relative, the Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi, sometimes considered a subspecies) ranges over half the continent. Other closely related species are the American Painted Lady (Vanessa virginiensis), and the West Coast Lady (Vanessa annabella).
Painted Lady butterflies are raised in many pre-school classrooms to demonstrate the life cycle of a butterfly. Naturally, this is one reason they are so popular amongst children. They are also often found in science fair projects.

The egg takes 3 to 5 days to hatch. The caterpillar takes 7–11 days to turn into a chrysalis. It takes 7–11 days for the chrysalis to turn into a butterfly. It doesn't stay in one area so long. The painted lady butterfly travels around 1000 miles in its life. Its wing span is 2 in. The painted lady caterpillar is black with spiked skin.
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The caterpillars feed on a wide variety of host plants of the families Asteraceae, especially Carduus crispus (as implied by the species name cardui – Latin for "of the thistles"). Also, Boraginaceae, Malvaceae (especially hollyhocks and dwarf mallow Malva neglecta), and a number of Fabaceae are eaten. The adults drink nectar from a variety of wildflowers and cultivars, more commonly the favored thistle, butterfly bush (Buddleja), asters, Tickseed sunflowers (Bidens) and zinnias.
(wikipedia)
other sites:

http://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/CynthCardui.htm



http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/lepidopt/nymph/plady.htm

http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Insects/Butterflies/SpButterflies/Vanessa.cardui.html

http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/nymp/cardui.html
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Oana
Un fluture in mare voga, dar la care ai gasit o perspectiva splendida! Claritate si detalii frumoase, culori naturale.
Bravo tie, dar si frumosului tau model, care a stat cuminte, cu speranta ca va aparea pe TN!
Mariana

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  • roges Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 604 W: 0 N: 529] (3120)
  • [2009-10-03 11:21]

Seara buna Oana,
din nou un macro excelent. Si Bg-ul imi place.
O seara frumoasa,
Adrian

Hello Oana,

Lovely macro capture of the Painted Lady butterfly with great details!
I like the sharpness and POV in the shot. The DOF is well done well for this capture. The colors are perfectly natural. The white flower gives great contrast to the bright colored Lady :) Great composition!

best regards,
Paras

Very good macro (detail)of Vanessa cardui.TFS

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  • Adanac Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1169 W: 1 N: 5208] (17609)
  • [2009-10-05 10:39]

Hello Oana,
What beauty you bring us here with this outstanding macro image. The great composition possesses splendid color and details. What a great treat Oana, thank you for sharing.
Rick

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2909 W: 34 N: 8636] (32186)
  • [2009-10-05 12:07]

Hi Oana . You have taken a fine close up ofthis beautiful butterfly which has shapfocusing and fine detail. Your use of the light has given natural colours. against the OOF BG. well done TFS.
Nick..

Oana
Doamna ta pictata este deosebit de clara, pana si firisoarele de par se vad perfect, culori de calitate ca de altfel intreaga captura.
Felicitari1
Horia

Dear Oana

It's a great pleasure to discover your gallery again. About this picture I would like to say the the Painted Lady may be very common, but it's also very beautiful. You present it in a very fine manner with delicate colours and good details.

Kind regards

Markus

Buna Oana,

Un fluture larg raspandit, chiar si baietii mei il stiu dupa denumirea stiintifica, iar denumirea populara am tradus-o din engleza, doamna pictata. E usor comica dar frumoasa.
Frumoasa si fotografia ta, ceva parca-i lipseste totusi, poate mai multa culoare.

Numai bine, Cezar T.

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  • jmirah Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 506 W: 5 N: 1135] (4665)
  • [2009-10-16 19:48]

Hi Oana
Beautiful and colorful capture...Fine detail...TFS
Jim

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