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Painted Lady   Vanessa cardui

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.
Hostplant
Rib Grass Plantain
Hostplant
Holly Hock
Information on Rearing
Butterflies from Eggs
Information on Rearing
Butterflies from caterpillars
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Painted Lady butterfly egg close view, Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady butterfly caterpillar hatchling, Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady butterfly caterpillars, freshly hatched, Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady egg
Painted Lady hatching
Painted Lady hatchling
caterpillars on hollyhock
Painted Lady butterfly caterpillar molting, Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady butterfly caterpillar color varieations, Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady butterfly caterpillar nest, Vanessa cardui
A caterpillar freshly molted.
Blond and dark caterpillars
Painted Lady caterpillars
with its silk 'nest'.
Painted Lady butterfly caterpillars, Vanessa cardui, safely growing in containers
Painted Lady butterfly caterpillars in a zippered rearing container, Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady butterfly pupa or chrysalis, deformed, Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady caterpillars
eating artificial diet
Painted Lady caterpillars pupating
in a screen rearing container.
Chrysalises; left - deformed
from lack of space to pupate.
Painted Lady butterfly chrysalises or pupae, not cocoon, Vanessa cardui
The day before the butterfly emerges, its wings show through the chrysalis skin.