Delicacies for a Painted Lady
13×19 including 1” white border. Ink print on fine art paper, unmated, unframed
Species: Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), Wright’s Marsh Thistle (Cirsium wrightii)
Public Land: Blue Hole Ciénega Nature Preserve, Santa Rosa, New Mexico
This painted lady butterfly sips nectar from a Wright’s Marsh Thistle, a flower that was listed as threatened on the Endangered Species List in 2023. It is found only in few wetland locations in New Mexico including some of the same ciénegas occupied by the federally threatened Pecos sunflower.
Painted Ladies are known from almost every continent. Absent only from Antarctica, it is the most widely distributed butterfly on Earth. It breeds year-round in the American tropics and invades northward each spring.
13×19 including 1” white border. Ink print on fine art paper, unmated, unframed
Species: Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), Wright’s Marsh Thistle (Cirsium wrightii)
Public Land: Blue Hole Ciénega Nature Preserve, Santa Rosa, New Mexico
This painted lady butterfly sips nectar from a Wright’s Marsh Thistle, a flower that was listed as threatened on the Endangered Species List in 2023. It is found only in few wetland locations in New Mexico including some of the same ciénegas occupied by the federally threatened Pecos sunflower.
Painted Ladies are known from almost every continent. Absent only from Antarctica, it is the most widely distributed butterfly on Earth. It breeds year-round in the American tropics and invades northward each spring.
13×19 including 1” white border. Ink print on fine art paper, unmated, unframed
Species: Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), Wright’s Marsh Thistle (Cirsium wrightii)
Public Land: Blue Hole Ciénega Nature Preserve, Santa Rosa, New Mexico
This painted lady butterfly sips nectar from a Wright’s Marsh Thistle, a flower that was listed as threatened on the Endangered Species List in 2023. It is found only in few wetland locations in New Mexico including some of the same ciénegas occupied by the federally threatened Pecos sunflower.
Painted Ladies are known from almost every continent. Absent only from Antarctica, it is the most widely distributed butterfly on Earth. It breeds year-round in the American tropics and invades northward each spring.