Vanessa cardui the HOSTS database. The main defense mechanisms of the painted lady butterflies include flight and camouflage. The caterpillars hide in small silk nests on top of leaves from main predators that include wasps, spiders, ants, and birds. "Vanessa cardui" and other painted lady butterflies are bred in schools for educational purposes and used for butterfly releases at hospices, memorial events and weddings. Vanessa cardui Vanessa cardui is a well-known colorful butterfly, known as the painted lady, or in North America as the cosmopolitan. "V. cardui" is one of the most widespread of all butterflies, found on every continent except Antarctica
Vanessa White "Ghosthunting with... The Saturdays" (2010). As an individual, she also participated as a contestant in the first series of "Popstar to Operastar" and the seventeenth series of "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here". Vanessa White was born in Yeovil, Somerset, United Kingdom, to a Filipino born mother and a British father. She grew up with two siblings, an older brother, Ryan and a younger sister, Celine. As a child, White applied unsuccessfully to attend Performing Arts & Technology on several occasions. Like The Saturdays bandmate, Frankie Bridge, White enrolled at the Sylvia Young Theatre School based in East London.