Painted Lady Butterfly Genus: Vanessa Species: cardui Sunflower Genus: Helianthus Species: annus Fun Facts Food Web Habitat adaptation Life Cycle Food Chain
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Habitat Painted Lady Butterflies live in gardens, fields, and dunes. They especially like to live in sunny places that our nice and warm! Sunflowers live in fields, prairies, roadsides.
Food Chain Aster, cosmos, thistle, buttonbush, mallow, hollyhock, malva, and SUNFLOWER. Painted Lady Butterfly Bugs, ants, birds, lizards, frogs, and spiders.
Food Web CATERPILLAR EGGS DEFENSE AGAINST PREDATORS: SHORT SPINE BUGS BUTTERFLY DEFENSE AGAINST PREDATORS GOOD EYES, CAMOUFLAGE CATERPILLAR EGGS DEFENSE AGAINST PREDATORS: SHORT SPINE BIRDS, SPIDERS, FROGS, AND LIZARD. ANTS, BIDS, AND LIZARDS CHRYSALIS BUGS DEFENSE AGAINST PREDATORS SHAKING BIRDS AND LIZADS
Fun Facts Painted Ladies are solar-powered They need the sun to fly! Painted Lady Butterflies are diurnal which means active during the day. There are 125,000 kinds of butterflies in the world. Sunflowers bloom in June- November. Sunflowers grow up to 12 feet. [2-12ft.] If you want to find the Sunflower look for yellow ray flowers. Branching stems and sharp, bristly hairs on all green parts.
Adaptation Painted Ladies adapt to their environment by camouflaging with it’s environment. When the Painted Lady Butterfly is a in chrysalis, it shakes.
Life Cycle Eggs Butterfly Larva comes out The chrysalis