Painted Lady Butterfly Magnet

A painted lady butterfly against the rich greens of a summer meadow, feeding on a buttercup glowing in the warm summer sunshine. The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland. Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonising mainland Europe and reaching Britain and Ireland. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, frequenting gardens and other flowery places in late summer.