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 ...

The underside of its hindwings has two large, dark eyespots, which sets it apart from the painted lady. The butterfly ... the U.S. and southern Canada. Adult butterflies lay pale green eggs ...

in which painted lady butterflies follow the seasonal rains and the flowers that pop up in their wake. "From the perspective of these butterflies, which live only five weeks in their adult life ...

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 ...

A Painted Lady butterfly on a tridax daisy in Ivory Coast.Credit...Lucas Foglia Supported by Photographs by Lucas Foglia Text by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Ms. Nezhukumatathil writes poetry and essays ...

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 ...