Painted Lady
The Painted Lady is a real migratory butterfly, travelling around 2000 (!) kilometers in its life.
This energetic butterfly lives year-round in the North & Central African deserts and mountains.
In may and june, lots of them migrates from Africa to Western and Northern Europe (the same happens from the deserts of Mexico to the USA and Canada).
Beginning in August some specimen of this butterfly migrate south again, back to the desert wintering grounds, but most specimen however die here in the autumn as is also the case with its offspring.
Dutch name : Distelvlinder
German name : Distelfalter
Latin name : Vanessa cardui
A big thanks to willy ombret
for the nomination of this picture.
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aline64 07/06/2015 16:52
beau shoot de cette belle dame dans une netteté topamicalement
Peter van der Houwen 10/02/2015 14:31
Superb close-up, a welcome addition to my collection of FC favourites!BR Peter.
Harold Thompson 28/04/2014 17:25
Very good close up detail and well done:-)) Harold
Lily B. 18/09/2012 19:30
J like jour painted Lady - its a beautiful picture with the jellow colors a totality. Great LilyMark Billiau. 21/07/2012 11:40
@ everybody who voted pro, thanks very much and of course a special thanks to willy ombret for the nomination of this picture.Mark
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Tolles MAKRO!!!PRO!!!
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