Painted Lady

• Scientific Name: Vanessa Cardui
• Common Name: Painted Lady
• Diet: nectar, all habitats
• Leg Characteristics: The painted lady butterfly spends most of its larval stage on thistle plants.
• Genus: Vanessa
• Family: Nymphalidae - Brush-footed butterflies
• Order: Lepidoptera
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Species: cardui
• Class: Insecta