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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.
I know its another image of the same species i posted yesterday but couldnt resist!!!
Painted Sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus)
The male painted buntings get all of the attention, but the green females are worthy of attention as well.
Merritt Island NWR
There’s a rhythm to the Painted Bunting season here in Oklahoma — a kind of layered, slow‑building chorus that starts in late April and doesn’t really quiet down until August. This male was holding court from a blackjack oak snag, singing that thin, sweet tsi-lik tsi-lik that carries farther than you’d expect from a tiny bird that looks like it was assembled from a box of crayons.
Most females raise two broods per season, and not only build the nest in a low shrub, but also incubate and feed the young. The males spend their time protecting their territory, which is great for birders because their song often reveals their location.
Our beautiful world, pass it on.
On the left we see a photograph from the 1960s of the paint crew in the very workshop we see displayed in my colour photograph on the right. That sign on the wall has been placed there by the museum and tells an interesting tale about workers' habits. [Enlarge to read it.]
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Off on another adventure... sometimes we catch light, sometimes we don't. My general rule is explore when the probability is high, and relax when it's low.
Painted Hill National Monument Oregon, is a small but special spot deep in the middle of Oregon. The colors represent 100's of millions of years of geological history.
Painted Hills is named after the colorful layers of its hills corresponding to various geological eras, formed when the area was an ancient river floodplain. The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid.
My favorite neotropical and my most frequent target in Spring. Hope you don't get tired of them. I don't! Our beautiful world, pass it on.
#6, the eastbound California Zephyr, splits a pair of DRGW-era intermediates near Cisco, Utah behind a P42DC in Phase 7 livery leading.
While out wandering on Petrie Island in Ottawa's east end, I spotted a couple of turtles basking in the warmth of the sun. Went back to get the long lens and took some pics from different angles, but this one stands out because of the reflection and fall colours in making the water glow green behind the turtle.
26.7.2021.
My first sighting of one of these this year.
Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) on Knapweed.
Clarborough Tunnel Nature Reserve.