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
White Houses (Vanessa Carlton song) White Houses (Vanessa Carlton song) "White Houses" is a song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Jenkins (lead singer of Third Eye Blind), and recorded for Vanessa Carlton's second album "Harmonium" (2004). Produced by Jenkins, it was released as the album's first single in 2004. "White Houses" is structured around a 4/4 time signature which "Blender" magazine has described as "bright" and "un-girly", and is backed by an orchestral arrangement that "PopMatters" magazine said "would make Jim Steinman blush". Carlton said of the song: "It's about jealousy, it's about losing your virginity, it's about living on your own.