Summary ³

Common. Flies year round. 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.

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1. (c) Donna Pomeroy, all rights reserved, uploaded by Donna Pomeroy
2. (c) dloarie, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by dloarie, http://www.flickr.com/photos/57556735@N08/6186706259
3. Adapted by Donna Pomeroy from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_cardui

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