Vanessa kershawi

2 Australian Painted Lady at Isaacs, ACT

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Identification history

	Vanessa kershawi	18 Dec 2022	MatthewFrawley
	Vanessa kershawi	18 Dec 2022	Mike

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Just emerged from pupa so it is still a bit wrinkly.

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Mike wrote:

18 Dec 2022

Larva in sighting https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4457533. I was going to take a photo of the pupa today because it had changed shape, indicating the wings inside, but the butterfly beat me to it. Only 16 days pupation.

owenh wrote:

18 Dec 2022

Well done Mike!

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Location information

Places Isaacs, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
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Mike Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects

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12mm to 25mm Animal size
Alive / healthy Animal health

Species information

Vanessa kershawi Scientific name
Australian Painted Lady Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 2203.8m Recorded at altitude
836 images trained Machine learning
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