painted lady
(plural – ‘painted ladies’( (also known as ‘thistle butterfly’ and ‘the cosmopolitan’)
a painted lady butterfly
a kind of insect – colourful butterfly – a general name given to a family of butterflies – medium-sized with mostly deep orange wings with black spots and black and white corners, and some dark eye spots on the back wings; size: (in terms of wing span) 2-3 inches; feeds on (eats) the nectar of the flowers; adults live only for 2-4 weeks; several species found on all the continents of the world, except Antarctica
(a painted lady, a woman who’s painted her body)
The painted lady (butterfly) is one of the most colourful butterflies, and the most wider-spread butterfly in the world (= found in many places)!
The painted ladies are migratory butterflies, i.e. they fly from one place to another and back to the same place depending on the weather changes.
The students in the schools are encouraged to grow the painted ladies for observation of the life cycle of insects!
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