Summary ⁴

Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the Painted Lady, or in North America as the Cosmopolitan. This butterfly has a strange pattern of flying in a sort of screw shape.

On San Bruno Mountain ⁵

Larvae prefer thistles. Sometimes fiddlenecks, nettles, mallows and rarely lupines if subject to high population pressures.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Greg Lasley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Greg Lasley
2. (c) Gilles San Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/sanmartin/3697511564/
3. no rights reserved, uploaded by Scott Loarie
4. Adapted by Scott Loarie from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_cardui
5. (c) Scott Loarie, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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