Painted Lady #2
by Robert Bales
Title
Painted Lady #2
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
I found this Painted Lady flying around our Landtena bush the other day and I followed it for several minutes trying to get a nice photos. These are very common in this area and they migrate.
In general, the Painted Lady is a large butterfly (wing span 59 cm (2.03.5 in)) identified by the black and white corners of its mainly deep orange, black-spotted wings. It has 5 white spots in the black forewing tips and while the orange areas may be pale here and there, there are no clean white dots in them. The hindwings carry 4 small submarginal eyespots on dorsal and ventral sides. Those on the dorsal side are black, but in the summer morph sometimes small blue pupils are present in some.
The Painted Lady may be the most widespread butterfly in the world. It also known as the thistle butterfly and the cosmopolitan (because it is so widespread, occurring in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa). This flying insect lives in temperate and some tropical areas.
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November 24th, 2017
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Comments (17)
Iris Richardson
WE don't have painted lady butterflies around here, beautiful.
Robert Bales replied:
thanks Iris for the wonderful comments and they are very common in this area!!
Anita Faye
Robert, beautiful Painted Lady Capture! Featured on Groovy Butterflies Group! https://fineartamerica.com/groups/groovy-butterflies.html
Neal Alicakos
Very beautiful capture Rob, the colors of the flowers and butterfly all seem to blend in together. So lively and bright, well done.
Morris Finkelstein
Beautiful close up photograph of an American Painted Lady on a bush, with great colors, light, perspective, and composition, Robert! F/L
Carol Japp
This is stunning Robert. Wonderful colour, detail and clarity! Truly great photography! l/f
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