Painted Lady
Butterfly
Sunflower
Genus: Helianthus
Genus: Vanessa
Species: cardui
Species: annus
Fun Facts
Food Web
Life Cycle
Food Chain
adaptation
Bibliography
 Http://www.earthsbirthday.org/butterflies/acti
vitykit/2.html
 www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us.4th.kkhp/inse
cts/paintedlady.html
 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/
butterfly/activities/printouts/paintedlady.shtm
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Habitat
Painted Lady Butterflies live in gardens,
fields, and dunes. They especially like to
live in sunny places that our nice and
warm!
Sunflowers live in fields, prairies,
roadsides.
Food Chain
Aster, cosmos, thistle, buttonbush,
mallow, hollyhock, malva, and
SUNFLOWER.
Painted Lady Butterfly
Bugs, ants, birds, lizards, frogs, and spiders.
BUTTERFLY
DEFENSE
AGAINST
PREDATORS
Food Web
GOOD EYES,
EGGS
CATERPILLAR
CAMOUFLAGE
BIRDS,
SPIDERS,
FROGS,
AND
LIZARD.
ANTS, BIDS,
AND
LIZARDS
BUGS
CHRYSALIS
DEFENSE
AGAINST
BIRDS
AND
LIZADS
PREDATORS
SHAKING
DEFENSE
AGAINST
PREDATORS:
SHORT SPINE
Fun Facts
Painted Ladies are solar-powered They need the sun to fly!
Painted Lady Butterflies are diurnal which means active during the
day.
There are 125,000 kinds of butterflies in the world.
Sunflowers bloom in June- November.
Sunflowers grow up to 12 feet. [2-12ft.]
If you want to find the Sunflower look for yellow ray flowers.
Branching stems and sharp, bristly hairs on all green parts.
Adaptation
 Painted Ladies adapt to their
environment by camouflaging with it’s
environment.
 When the Painted Lady Butterfly is a in
chrysalis, it shakes.
Life Cycle
Eggs
Butterfly
Larva comes out
The chrysalis