painted lady

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Related to Cynthia cardui: Vanessa cardui

painted lady

n.
1. A widely distributed butterfly (Cynthia cardui syn. Vanessa cardui) having brown, black, and orange markings.
2. A house, especially a Victorian house, having decorative trim painted in several colors.

painted lady

n
(Animals) a migratory nymphalid butterfly, Vanessa cardui, with pale brownish-red mottled wings

paint′ed la′dy


n.
a butterfly, Vanessa cardui, having brownish black and orange wings and hind wings each with four eyespots.
[1745–55]
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Most springs in the UAE witness at least a small arrival of north-bound, migrant butterflies, with the large, strikingly coloured Caper White Belenois aurota and Painted Lady Cynthia cardui amongst the most obvious.
'Migration patterns and feeding resources of the Painted Lady butterfly, Cynthia cardui (L.) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the northeast of the lberian peninsula'.
Observations on migrant Caper White Belenois aurota (Fabricus 1793) and Painted Lady Cynthia cardui (Linnaeus 1758) butterflies passing through the UAE, spring 2014
Observations of butterfly behavior in 1996 in Berkshire: Interplay between Vanessa atalanta (L.), Cynthia cardui (L.) (Lep.: Nymphalidae) and one gay cat, an (?) alluring predator.
The effects of methodological limitations in the study of butterfly behavior and demography: a daily study of Vanessa atalanta (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) for 22 years

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