These sensory hairs help adult butterflies navigate their environment: e.g. choosing appropriate hostplants on which to lay their eggs. Painted Lady caterpillars are generalist herbivores, feeding on ...

Every year, painted lady butterflies born in Europe embark ... The researchers found more than 2,700 caterpillars and nearly 2,000 adult butterflies, from as far west as Cote d’Ivoire and ...

The painted lady butterfly Roger Vila The painted lady butterfly (Vanessa ... had abundant larval host plants as well as hilltops near the breeding sites to track adult activity. They documented 2,755 ...