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American Painted Lady Butterfly
Vanessa virginiensis

Please be avised that just enough food is supplied for your caterpillars for the shipment to you. They will need immediate food. Make certain you have the insecticide free host plant available. Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sells most of these host plants as well as Painted Lady Artificial Diet.
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Cudweed
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Butterflies from caterpillars
Buy American Painted Lady Butterfly Caterpillars Below.
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Cudweed is simply a weed which grows in yards, gardens, fields, and ditches.
It's a weed we mow, hoe, weedeat, and pull from soil
never realizing it is essential to American Lady butterflies.
In Florida, this butterfly is a sign of spring.
When summer arrives, the American Lady is rarely seen.
One caterpillar used three plants
to create its nest.
American Lady caterpillars
tightly curl when disturbed.
An American Lady caterpillar eating.
An American Lady caterpillar
hangs in a 'J' preparing
to pupate into a chrysalis.
A chrysalis (pupa) may be either neon green ...
... or the chrysalis may be gray.