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Painted lady


Painted lady
Información de la foto
Copyright: Paul van Slooten (pvs) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1168 W: 261 N: 3035] (13835)
Género: Animals
Medio: Color
Tomada el: 2006-06-22
Categorías: Insects
Cámara: Konica Minolta Dynax 7D, Minolta AF 200 mm / f:4 macro APO G, Digital RAW 100, UV Filter
Exposición: f/25.0, 1/125 segundos
Details: Tripod: Yes (Fill) Flash: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Versión de la foto: Versión original, Workshop
Fecha enviada: 2006-06-22 3:41
Vista: 642
Puntos: 24
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Today another butterfly,photographed about one hour ago in the garden,between the rainshowers as it has been raining now and then,the butterfly was a bit warming up,in the scarce sunbeams that there were,I used my sigma ef 500 flash for the fill in flash on this shot,further I cropped,sharpened and resized for web using CS2,

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
Description:

The upperside of the wings is orange-brown with darker wing bases. The forewing has a black patch and white bar on leading edge, and the hindwing has a row of 5 small black spots and sometimes has blue scales. The underside has a black, brown, and gray pattern with 4 small eyespots. Painted lady butterflies have a wing span of 2 - 2 7/8 inches (5.1 - 7.3 cm).


Life history:

Males perch and patrol during the afternoon for females that are ready to mate. In the West males usually perch on shrubs on hilltops, while in the East males perch on bare ground in open areas. Females lay eggs one at a time on the tops of host plant leaves. Caterpillars live in silk nests and eat leaves. Adults hibernate only in the South and in mild winters.

Caterpillar hosts:

More than 100 host plants have been recorded by scientists. Their favorites include thistles (Asteraceae), hollyhock and mallow (Malvaceae), and various legumes (Fabaceae).

Adult food:

The painted lady prefers nectar from plants 3-6 feet high, especially thistles; also aster, cosmos, blazing star, ironweed, and joe-pye weed. Flowers from other families that are visited include red clover, buttonbush, privet, and milkweeds.

Habitat:

These butterflies live almost everywhere, especially in open or disturbed areas including gardens, old fields, dunes.

Range:

Painted lady butterflies live on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. From the deserts of northern Mexico, the painted lady migrates and temporarily colonizes the United States and Canada south of the Arctic. Sometimes, population explosions in Mexico will cause massive northward migrations.

Comments:

The painted lady is also known as the Thistle Butterfly because the caterpillars like to feed on them and also as the Cosmopolitan because it is the most widely distributed butterfly in the world.
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  • phlr Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1241 W: 129 N: 881] (2814)
  • [2006-06-22 3:48]

Very beautiful photo of this beautiful Nymphaldiae Paul!
Excellent DOF and deails!
Excellent on colours and POV!
5* and TFS!

Hi Paul!

Perfect picture with very good DOF, colours and sharpness are OK. Very good composition - thanks

Chris

Hello Paul!
Different and very nice pov! Great use of flash. focusing, sharpness, colours, details all are wonderful! Great compostition with the wet beautiful flowers. I think that your garden have a great habitat for the butterflies and insects like our garden! Thank you!
Ersin

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  • magal Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 226 W: 0 N: 313] (1241)
  • [2006-06-22 4:09]

Hi Peter,
Beautiful shot of this Vanessa Cardui. Excellent composition and unusal [and very effective] POV. Colour and sharpness - spot on!
TFS
Mark
ps - Thanks for the very informative note

Hi PSV,
nice macro, colorfull and detailed.
Well done.
Andrea

Hi Paul,
very appealing shot of the Painted Lady, taken from a very dynamic point of view - with very good details and fine shades of colours. I might have cropped a bit of the image to the left, but of course the Lilac blossoms are very beautiful, too.
This species of butterfly and Syringe (lilac) is a rare combination anyway as the migrant V.cardui usally does not arrive from the south in our place before lilac is over.
With thanks, and best regards,
Peter

PS: Hope you don't mind my trying a little workshop with adjustment of brightness, contrast, and colour saturation in order to further increase the impact of that lovely shot.

Bonjour Paul
C'est une excellent Prise de vue en macro de ce beau papillon! La composition très jolie avec de belles couleurs, ainsi que les détails. Merci pour le partage .
Au revoir et Bravo ....JP

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  • OzBY Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 182 W: 2 N: 312] (1085)
  • [2006-06-22 16:46]

Great picture of this butterfly. Great POV, DOF, BG and color

Oz

Hello Paul, excllent details, Bg, POV, DOF perefct Shot TFS Kyle

Hi Paul

A lovely shot. Nicely composed with excellent exposure, POV and depth of colour. Sharpness and clarity are spot on. Nice work. :-)

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  • Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 885 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
  • [2006-06-23 16:09]

very beautiful picture of this very beautiful butterfly from a less than usual POV.

TFS

Emma

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  • CTP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 647 W: 6 N: 1106] (3191)
  • [2006-06-23 23:54]

Hi Paul,
Excellent butterfly close-up with pretty flower.
Great pov,dof,focus,sharpness,colors,note and framing.Well Done.TFS
Chris

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