Painted lady Painted lady The Cynthia group of colourful butterflies, commonly called painted ladies, comprises a subgenus of the genus "Vanessa" in the family Nymphalidae. They are well known throughout most of the world. The group includes: The painted lady ("V. cardui") is a large butterfly (wing span ) identified by the black and white corners of its mainly deep orange, black-spotted wings. It has five white spots in the black forewing tips and while the orange areas may be pale here and there, there are no clean white dots in them. The hindwings carry four small submarginal eyespots on the dorsal
Tingis cardui Tingis cardui Tingis cardui is a Palearctic lacewing bug. The species is widespread in almost all of Europe and lacking only in the far North. It is common also in North Africa and East Asia minor and the Middle East as well as southern Russia and the Caucasus to Siberia and the North of China. "Tingis cardui " lives on "Cirsium", in particular on "Cirsium vulgare", but also on "Cirsium palustre" and less frequently on "Carduus nutans", "Carduus crispus", and "Carduus acanthoides". Overwintering occurs as an imago in the ground litter, or under loose bark. The bugs appear in April