Learn how to attract and identify a painted lady butterfly and caterpillar. Find out what they eat and what host plants you should grow.

Each year, painted lady butterflies migrate thousands of miles between Africa and Europe. As the environment changes, so do their journeys.

Every year, for millions of years, a huge number of painted lady butterflies have migrated thousands of miles across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Though they've been a common sight ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

Painted lady butterflies are flying more than 2,600 miles over the Atlantic Ocean without stopping, one of the longest recorded journeys ever taken by a flying insect. These are painted lady ...

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 ...

Painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui, shown resting on a bush in Benin) are known for flying thousands of miles from Europe to Africa. Now researchers know why the insects sometimes show up in ...

Can painted ladies be found in the US? Yes! The Painted lady butterfly can be found in every continent except Australia and Antarctica, states University of Colorado Boulder's Museum of Natural ...

Non-stop flight: 4,200 km transatlantic flight of the Painted Lady butterfly mapped. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 06 / 240625221740.htm ...

Butterflies are traveling across the Atlantic from West Africa. It's one of the longest insect journeys ever recorded. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: These are painted lady butterflies. Gerard Talavera came ...