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    The Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi) is a species of butterfly mostly confined to Australia, although westerly winds have dispersed it to islands...
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    most widespread of all butterfly species. It is commonly called the painted lady, or formerly in North America the cosmopolitan. Male and female. Upperside...
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    and the painted ladies of the Cynthia group (formerly a subgenus): Painted lady, American painted lady, West Coast lady, Australian painted lady, etc. For...
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    American Vanessa species): the Painted lady (Vanessa cardui), which is almost global in its distribution, the Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi), mostly...
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  • throughout North America Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi), a butterfly mostly confined to Australia The Painted Lady, a 1912 film directed by...
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    Zealand. The Australian painted lady has been known to migrate from Australia to New Zealand in times of strong migration in Australia. Humans first...
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    An Australian painted lady feeding on a flower's nectar...
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    Butterfly (category Use Australian English from September 2015)
    aposematism to evade their predators. Some, like the monarch and the painted lady, migrate over long distances. Many butterflies are attacked by parasites...
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    "The Nutritional, Morphologic, and Physiologic Bases of Nectarivory in Australian Birds". Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery. 14 (2): 85–94. doi:10...
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    Trichosirocalus briese is also being tested as a control agent. The Australian painted lady butterfly has been known to use this invasive species as a host...
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    Western Hemisphere; all pollination of native plants in the Americas and Australia historically has been performed by various native bees. It has also been...
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  • List of butterflies of Victoria (category Butterflies of Australia)
    albifascia T. a. antoni genus: Vanessa Yellow admiral, Vanessa itea Australian painted lady, Vanessa kershawi genus: Ypthima Dusky knight, Ypthima arctous...
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    the four-barred swordtail from Australia, the common savanna bush brown from South Africa, the Australian painted lady and the Danaid eggfly. The park...
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    are also known to migrate. The Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi) periodically migrates down the coast of Australia, and occasionally, in periods...
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    Xerochrysum bracteatum (category Flora of South Australia)
    micalis have been recorded on this species, as have those of the Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi). The tiny fruits are dispersed by wind, and...
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  • 7% by strangers. In certain species of butterflies, such as the Australian painted lady butterfly and the speckled wood butterfly, the male defends territories...
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    Chrysocephalum apiculatum (category Asterales of Australia)
    also rejuvenate old plants. It is an important food plant for the Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi), a butterfly.[citation needed]. Chrysocephalum...
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    species and a number of butterflies notably Vanessa kershawi (Australian painted lady), Zizina labradus (common grass-blue) and Ogyris olane (Eastern...
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    1819) genus: Vanessa Painted lady, Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758) Yellow admiral, Vanessa itea (Fabricius, 1775) Australian painted lady, Vanessa kershawi...
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    Epacris impressa (category Ericales of Australia)
    spinebill. Insects recorded visiting white-flowered plants include the Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi) and yellow admiral (V. itea), as well as bees...
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    region and northern Europe. The Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi) periodically migrates down the coast of Australia. Occasionally, in periods of...
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    admiral kahu kura native, endemic Vanessa kershawi (McCoy, 1868) Australian painted lady pepe parahua regular migrant Melanitis leda bankia (Fabricius,...
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    Ecology of Sydney (category Vegetation of Australia)
    present in Sydney: Australian carpet beetle Australian garden orb weaver spider Australian grapevine moth Australian painted lady Bess beetle Black house...
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    Trillium undulatum, commonly called painted trillium, painted lady (not to be confused with the painted lady butterfly), or trille ondulé in French, is...
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  • List of butterflies of Tasmania (category Butterflies of Australia)
    argus, Junonia villida genus: Vanessa Yellow admiral, Vanessa itea Australian painted lady, Vanessa kershawi genus: Argynnina Tasmanian brown, Argynnina hobartia...
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    Conception, the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Crystal Mountain'), also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa (Polish: Matka Boska Częstochowska) is a venerated icon of...
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    Coccinellidae (redirect from Lady Beetle)
    ladybirds in the United Kingdom; "lady" refers to mother Mary. Entomologists use the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles to avoid confusion with true...
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    such figures were used for the names of pubs, and painted on their signs. In 1939, Julia Somerset, Lady Raglan, wrote an article in the journal Folklore...
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    Glomeris oblongoguttata, also known as the painted lady pill millipede, is a species of pill millipede belonging to the genus Glomeris and the family Glomeridae...
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    and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Recent commentators...
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