SPOKANE — A Washington State University butterfly expert described painted ladies as a "cosmopolitan" butterfly because they can be found on every continent aside from Antarctica. The ladies are ...

Do Painted Lady Butterflies Migrate? When you think of butterfly migration, it’s probably monarch butterflies that first spring to mind. But monarchs aren’t the only butterflies that travel long ...

Each year, painted lady butterflies migrate thousands of miles between Africa and Europe. As the environment changes, so do their journeys. A painted lady butterfly waiting on a rocky hilltop for a ...

Perhaps you spotted them on La Cienega, flitting north by the thousands near the Westfield mall. Maybe you saw them in Santa Anita, crossing a quiet residential street in a thick, fluttering line. For ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Front Range has been taking on a tinge of orange. Not because of fall foliage, but rather a large migration of the painted lady butterfly. In recent days ...

It’s taken more than a decade, but scientists have cracked the case of these colorful insects found thousands of miles away from home. Painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui, shown resting on a bush ...

Every year, for millions of years, a huge number of painted lady butterflies have migrated thousands of miles across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Though they've been a common sight throughout ...

LAS VEGAS — Painting the town in Las Vegas are millions of painted ladies, and not the kind that people usually associate with Sin City. Painted lady butterflies are flitting around southern Nevada on ...

A painted lady butterfly feeds in a St. Paul, Minn., garden, Sept. 11, 2003, before migrating to warmer climate. (AP Photo/ Janet Hostetter) It’s not just you. Lawrence is indeed experiencing a ...

Painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) are migrating into Colorado and large numbers of them have been spotted up and down the Front Range. Gardeners, are you plagued by prickly invaders and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Perhaps you spotted them on La Cienega, ...

What Does a Painted Lady Butterfly Look Like? A painted lady butterfly has an orange and black patterned upper wing with white dots and four or five black dots along each hindwing. Underwings have a ...