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A painted lady butterfly on blue mistflowers in the Butterfly Garden of the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Tucson, Arizona.
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black - Vietnam War
A must to get the real feeling^^ !!! ^^ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore, I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love, both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a newborn baby it just happens ev'ryday
I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and I must have it painted black
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black
No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
If I look hard enough into the setting sun
My love will laugh with me before the morning comes
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
I want to see your face painted black, black as night, black as coal
Don't want to see the sun, flying high in the sky
I want to see it painted, painted, painted, painted black, yea
Pic taken at Binh Dinh Indokina SL, the Nam Choppers' from the web . . .
Painted lady
Insect
Description
Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the painted lady, or formerly in North America as the cosmopolitan. Wikipedia
Macro of flaking paint on a brick along Grand Avenue in Pasadena, California
Day 193 of my 366 Project, and my entry for the Macro Textures weekly theme on Macro Mondays. HMM to all!
Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi)
This one finally stopped for a brief rest after leading me on a chase through the Sneydes Rd. Paddock.
Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui
The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonising mainland Europe and reaching Britain and Ireland. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, frequenting gardens and other flowery places in late summer.
Painted lady butterflies have a pale buffy-orange background colour to the upper wings. The forewings have black tips marked with white spots; the hindwings have rows of black spots. The undersides are pale with blue eyespots.
Painted ladies do not hibernate in Britain; instead they migrate to and from northern Africa. They can arrive in early spring, but late May and June are more usual. They are fairly common across Britain, numerous in some years.
Females lay their small, green eggs on a range of species, such as nettles and mallows, but thistles are the general favourite. When the caterpillars hatch they begin to eat the underside of the leaf. As they grow, each constructs a tent of folded leaves fastened with silk.
Caterpillars pupate and remain suspended in a large tent of leaves until the adults emerge in August and September. The whole British population dies or emigrates to Africa in the autumn.
Caterpillars are black, speckled with tiny white spots and have a yellow stripe down each side. They are covered in spines.
Having observed lots of Painted Buntings over the years I am impressed with the amount of variation in color that they have.
At first, I thought I was imagining it or that the differences in colors that I was seeing was just the result of my limited photography skills. It frustrated me so much that I even went out carrying a gray card so I could manually set the white balance to the exact conditions that my photos were taken. To my surprised and frustration, I was still seeing a variety of colors, especially on the “red” parts of the birds.
When the gray card didn’t solve my problem, I investigated the possibility that the issue was that the red channel was being over exposed like I frequently see happening when photographing birds like Vermilion Flycatchers and Scarlet Tanagers. However, after reviewing a bunch of histograms I decided that wasn’t the issue either.
Eventually I got over some of the excitement of seeing a Painted Bunting and really paid close attention to the color and found that the birds really are differently colored from individual to individual, sometimes in fairly drastic ways. The camera might not be perfect at accurately recording those colors but the variation is indeed real.
Recently I encountered this male Painted Bunting and was really impressed with how different the red parts are from the typical. Near the base of the tail I can almost see some purple or blue color showing. The head and back both look pretty typical but that muted red really gives the bird a different look.
I wonder what causes these differences. Is it something about this bird’s diet or some genetic difference? I wonder what impact the color difference has on getting a mate.
Whatever the reason for it is, I think it’s pretty neat to be able to enjoy an interesting bird like this one.
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Passerina ciris
Back in my local park, I found a few Painted Ladies. Last year, they came regularly to my yard, but not this year. However, I'm still getting adult Monarchs every day.
Earlier this month I spotted this male Pained Bunting while driving around Brazoria NWR. He was nice enough to give me a brief look as he emerged from the weeds just before he flew off.
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Passerina ciris
424) Greater Painted Snipe
Greater painted-snipe, Rostratula benghalensis, Meragi
Beautiful snipe that can usually found close to the fringes of reed beds along shorelines of marshes, swamps, ponds and streams. They feed on insects, crustaceans, molluscs and seeds.
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Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris), Laguna Seca Ranch, Texas.This species are still fairly common, but populations have been dropping for several decades. The North American Breeding Bird Survey estimated a decline of 62% between 1966 and 1995, but the 1966-2014 survey does not find significant decreases, suggesting that populations may have stabilized, or at least the decline has slowed, since 1995. Painted Buntings are popular cage birds and are often trapped on their wintering grounds and sold illegally.
I am not 100% sure if I identified this properly but I think it's a painted Turtle...Thank you very much for viewing my photo ! I truly appreciate any faves, comments and awards! 🐢
The Painted Hills in South Australia taken from the air. These remote amazing hills are surrounded by flat dry desert and lie in Anna Creek - the world's largest cattle station. The station is some 24,000 square kilometres (or bigger than Wales if you prefer a tangible scale).
Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui
The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonising mainland Europe and reaching Britain and Ireland. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, frequenting gardens and other flowery places in late summer.
Painted lady butterflies have a pale buffy-orange background colour to the upper wings. The forewings have black tips marked with white spots; the hindwings have rows of black spots. The undersides are pale with blue eyespots.
Painted ladies do not hibernate in Britain; instead they migrate to and from northern Africa. They can arrive in early spring, but late May and June are more usual. They are fairly common across Britain, numerous in some years.
Females lay their small, green eggs on a range of species, such as nettles and mallows, but thistles are the general favourite. When the caterpillars hatch they begin to eat the underside of the leaf. As they grow, each constructs a tent of folded leaves fastened with silk.
Caterpillars pupate and remain suspended in a large tent of leaves until the adults emerge in August and September. The whole British population dies or emigrates to Africa in the autumn.
Caterpillars are black, speckled with tiny white spots and have a yellow stripe down each side. They are covered in spines.
LYCAON PICTUS, also known as Painted Dog, African Wild Dog, Cape Hunting Dog, and Painted Hunting Dog are listed as Endangered in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa, and it is estimated there are fewer than 5 500 free-ranging wild dogs in Africa.
In South Africa, the population is estimated to number fewer than 250 mature individuals. Wild dogs need large home ranges, and habitat fragmentation has led to population declines. Unfortunately they have a mistaken reputation for attacking livestock, and therefore are often persecuted by humans. Infectious diseases, especially canine distemper and rabies are also exacting a toll, and recently road accidents and incidental snaring have also become major threats to this species.
The individual in this image was photographed in the southern part of the Kruger National Park and we counted at least 8 individuals during this special sighting, the first of two packs we saw within a week's time.
© Gerda van Schalkwyk. All rights reserved.
Painted pillars in the Gothic church St Mary (Marienkirche) in Anklam, Germany. This church was mentioned for the first time in 1296, but the beginning of the work on the church dates to the middle of the 13th century. When the building started they were going for the Romanesque style, but when tastes changed (in the Middle Ages), so did the plans for the church. Today it is a quite beautiful Gothic church with the ubiquitous high, slim pillars and vaulting - and a lot of well preserved painted decorations. The building was hit by bombs in the Second World War, but of the interior only the south aisle was more severely damaged.
The church is a so called hall church, in the Gothic style known as brick Gothic.
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Male
Passerina ciris
At long last I've been able to capture one of these beauties! The most spectacularly colored songbird found in North America.
Circle-B-Bar Reserve, Polk County, FL
Ran across several Painted Buntings, including this one keeping a close eye on us as we setup on a rural road to take a few clicks of him. I can't pass up a chance to shoot these super colorful birds. I would say the most colorful in North America, at least the US. Passerina ciris
Over the past week or so I have observed the Painted Buntings returning to their breeding grounds in my area and I have to say it is exciting. I spotted this one recently in a wooded area near my home and was delighted that he hung around long enough for a couple of photos.
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Passerina ciris