Painted Lady Vanessa kershawi
Wingspan: 43 mm - 47 mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: In every month of the year but not every year.
Distribution: From Cooktown, FNQ south across all QLD, all NSW, all Victoria, all Tasmania, all SA, southern NT and southern WA.
Migratory species: migrates some years, usually in Spring, from north to the south, often on very wide fronts, over a one to two month period.
Status Claire Cottage: very common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: seen annually
Wingspan: 43 mm - 47 mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: In every month of the year but not every year.
Distribution: From Cooktown, FNQ south across all QLD, all NSW, all Victoria, all Tasmania, all SA, southern NT and southern WA.
Migratory species: migrates some years, usually in Spring, from north to the south, often on very wide fronts, over a one to two month period.
Status Claire Cottage: very common
Status Dorrigo Plateau: seen annually
Painted Lady feeding on yellow daisy bush, Euryops, Claire Cottage Dorrigo, 24 Dec 2006
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Painted Lady underside, Claire Cottage Dorrigo, 24 Dec 2006
Painted Lady sunning itself, Claire Cottage Dorrigo, 8 Sep 2019
Feeding on Eriostemon myropooides, Claire Cottage Dorrigo, 8 Sep 2019
Painted Lady feeding on Dahlia, Claire Cottage Dorrigo, 25 Nov 2016
Feeding on Wallflower, Claire Cottage Dorrigo, 7 Nov 2018
This Painted Lady caterpillar feeding on Leptorhynchos squamatus has spun a web around itself for protection 26 Dec 2006
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Painted Lady larva feeding on Leptorhynchos squamatus 02 Dec 2006
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Painted Lady Vanessa kershawi
Wingspan: 43 mm - 47 mm
Distribution: From Cooktown, FNQ south across all QLD, all NSW, all Victoria, all Tasmania, all SA, southern NT and southern WA.
Status Claire Cottage: very common
Butterfly Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: Aug 2004, 2006, 2007, 2012, Sep 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, Oct 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, Nov 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, Dec 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, Jan 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, Feb 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, Mar 2002, 2011, 2015, Apr 2009, 2010, 2013, May 2002, 2012, 2013, Jne 2014, Jly 2014, 2016,
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: various random sightings
Larva Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: Dec 2006, 2014,
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: None to date
Larval Food Plants:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: ASTERACEAE: Leptorhynchos squamatus
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: (as for Claire Cottage)
- ELSEWHERE: ASTERACEAE: Ammobium alatum, Bracteantha bracteata, Chryssocephalum apiculatum, C. semipapposum, Gnaphalium sp., Helichrysum rupicola, H. scorpioides, Rhodanthe chlorocephalum, (note 6 introduce plants to be added) *Arctotheca,
Habitat where found at Claire Cottage: moist areas above 800 metres near rainforest
Flight habit: Throughout the day.
Last autumn sighting - Dorrigo Plateau: 20/04/20
Interesting observations.
* One of the butterflies that can be seen flying during winter although it is more common in the warmer months. In September 2007 & 2013 and October 2016 Spring migrations brought large numbers of this butterfly to the Plateau traveling on warm westerly winds.
* We observed a female Painted Lady egg laying on a patch of Leptorhynchos squamatus (Scaly Buttons) on 31/10/16. At this altitude Scaly Buttons die in winter and commence regrowth in October.
* 17/01/21 - witnessed a female Painted Lady egg depositing on a distant clump of Leptorhynchos squamatus (Scaly Buttons)