Painted Lady Butterfly

Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) at the back of Greenwood House. This is an immigrant species that comes in the first place from North Africa and travels on warm winds via Europe to the UK. So far it has been unable to survive the British winters, which means that each year we are reliant on new arrivals for sightings of this beautiful insect. The numbers that reach our shores vary greatly from year to year.

 Category: BIODIVERSITY, INSECTS, NATURE, SUMMER      Tagged: , , , , ,

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