Not sure which variety.
San Diego County, California, US
Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758), Painted Lady, Pont del Diable, Tarragona, Spain, 16 May 2013
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), ? male, presumably a summer brood individual from parents that migrated in the spring?, Heron's Head Park, San Francisco, California - 28 July 2012.
The Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) is a well-known colourful butterfly, sometimes known in North America as the Cosmopolitan. This butterfly has a strange pattern of flying in a sort of screw shape.
