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Vanessa cardui


Vanessa cardui
Photo Information
Copyright: Roma Januchowska (romuszka) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 231 W: 9 N: 319] (2119)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-07-29
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon EOS 450D, Tamron SP AF90mm F/2.8 DI MACRO 1:1
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/640 seconds
Map: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Butterflies' transient life, Painted Ladies [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2009-07-30 23:04
Viewed: 387
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Polish]
The Painted Lady / Vanessa cardui/

L 5-6 cm
Feature
Is a well-known colourful butterfly, known in North America as the Cosmopolite.It is one of the most widespread of all butterflies, found on every continent except Antarctica.

Occurrence
It to Europe comes flying already in April, it appears since June till October in 2 then-3 generations. They fly away on noon in autumn.Happened mostly on open terrains, also in gardens.

Lifestyle
Eggs be folded on alimentary plant's leaves individually.Caterpillar is grey or black, with yellow lines after sides.The caterpillars feed on a wide variety of host plants of the families Compositae (especially thistle), Boraginaceae, Malvaceae (especially hollyhocks and dwarf mallow (Malva neglecta), and a number of legumes. The adults drink nectar from a variety of wildflowers and cultivars, more commonly the favored thistle, butterfly bush (Buddleia), asters, Tickseed sunflowers (Bidens) and zinnias.

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  • horias Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 397 W: 59 N: 867] (4070)
  • [2009-07-30 23:16]

Roma,
Beautiful Vanessa ...sharp. natural colors...congratulation!
Horia

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  • thor68 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 792 W: 138 N: 1312] (5642)
  • [2009-07-30 23:43]

nice colorful capture of the pretty painted lady having lunch! :-) details and sharpness are good as well as the pov, love
the composition with the beautiful big yellow flower. well done & best wishes, thor.

Excellent capture, very nice colors, light and fine details,
have a nice day,
Nikos.

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  • cloud Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 297 W: 71 N: 758] (4703)
  • [2009-07-31 3:25]

Witaj Romo,
Duze wspolzawodnictwo w pokazie tej Lady. Gdyby male nieostrosci na koncach skrzydel byloby super, bardzo ladne rozmycie i kolor BG.
Pozdrawiam, Pawel

Hi Roma,

Lovely capture of this painted lady. Awesome composition. Bright and sharp image. Nice BG. Very well done!

TFS,
KEdar

Hello Roma,
a splendid picture of the Painted Lady taken from an excellent POV in a great pose, very good sharpness and mavellous colours, i like this colourful composition.
TFS
Best regards
Have a good weekend
Maurizio

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  • PeterZ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2413 W: 94 N: 5586] (17766)
  • [2009-07-31 10:52]

Hello Roma,
What an excellent photo! Everything in this Painted Lady is so good and beautiful. Superb sharp details, beautiful colours, great composition, POV, DOF and OOF BG. Very well done!
Regards,
Peter

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  • Luis52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1110 W: 5 N: 3457] (12761)
  • [2009-07-31 15:29]

Hola Roma.
Muy bella la imagen de la Mariposa posada sobre la flor. Sus colores lucen exelentemente y tiene ademas una muy alata nitidez.
Saludos
Luis52.

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