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    (c) roy pilcher, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Juan Carlos Garcia Morales, all rights reserved

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    (c) Steven Mlodinow, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Steve Woodhall, all rights reserved

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    (c) Eric Hough, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Painted Lady

Vanessa cardui

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About

Vanessa cardui is a well-known colorful butterfly, known as the painted lady, or in North America as the cosmopolitan. This butterfly has a strange habit of flying in a sort of screw shape.

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