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
Black-and-orange flycatcher insects an hour whereas at mid-day they are half as efficient. The black-and-orange flycatcher along with the rufous-chested flycatcher ("Ficedula dumetoria") are the only sedentary species within the genus "Ficedula" and lack the longer and more pointed wing morphology of the long distant migrant members. Black-and-orange flycatcher The black-and-orange flycatcher or black-and-rufous flycatcher ("Ficedula nigrorufa") is a species of flycatcher endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats, the Nilgiris and Palni hill ranges in southern India. It is unique among the "Ficedula" flycatchers in having rufous coloration on its back and prior to molecular studies was suggested to be