American Painted Lady
by Robert Bales
Title
American Painted Lady
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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October 25th, 2016
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Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #15 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.....L/F/Tw
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This beautiful image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art Forever With You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “April 2018 Stunning Group Featured Images” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. If the activity is allowed, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ page. Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks so much Jan for the wonderful feature, congrats, invite, and the nice comments!! It is very much appreciated!! I also shared the feature on my FB page.
Anita Faye
Robert, happy to feature your beautiful work on Groovy Butterflies! https://fineartamerica.com/groups/groovy-butterflies.html