The Afro-Palearctic population of the painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, is a single freely interbreeding, or ‘panmictic’ population. Vanessa cardui is a renowned world traveler ...

Male monarchs have two black dots on their ... Learn how to identify painted lady butterflies. Soldier butterflies also look like monarchs, and have many markings similar to queens but fewer ...

The specimen was collected in late 1800s, but still looks like it was collected yesterday.' The relay team of the butterfly world, the painted lady species completes an impressive 9,000 mile journey ...

Each year, painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) travel thousands of kilometers between Africa and Europe in search of suitable breeding conditions. A new study, involving researchers from the ...