The Painted Lady Butterfly is the most widespread butterfly species found on the planet, occupying all continents except Antarctica and Australia! Painted Ladies belong in the family Nymphalidae, ...

1. Thousands of records of migratory butterfly species such as Vanessa cardui flying just above ground-level on fixed compass bearings have led to the common belief that these insects migrate within ...

Scientists say this year has seen an especially high number of painted lady butterflies due to the amount of rainfall supporting the growth of the plants that host their larva.

Follow the painted lady butterfly life cycle from egg to adult. Plus, learn how you can help painted ladies on their migration journey.

After a long journey across the Sahara, painted lady butterflies from Europe set up camp in central Africa to wait out winter and breed.

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom ...

Here, a painted lady butterfly rests in a camel skull in Jordan. Lucas Foglia Foglia also soon realized that the butterflies’ migration was taking place alongside human migration.

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 ...

About one billion small butterflies, known as Painted Ladies, are flying north from the deserts of Mexico.

The large movement of small, Painted Lady butterflies may continue for about a month.

The Painted Lady Butterfly program at the Lorain Public Library System Columbia Branch features 25 to 35 caterpillars in transition to becoming butterflies for patrons to observe and learn.