Talk:Vanessa cardui

Importance rating
As a well-known species, both in the wild (globally) and in captivity, this species warrants High importance—GRM (talk) 15:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Range Map
It would be interesting to see a map showing the range on various continents. 206.53.196.209 (talk) 01:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Merger

 * No—"Painted Lady" is too ambiguous. Go back through the history and you'll see that they were once one page, and we split them...—GRM (talk) 15:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Re proposed merge of Painted Lady into Vanessa cardui: not synonymous topics (one is subset of other). I removed merge tags. ENeville (talk) 18:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

If one is a subset of the other, that seems to justify the merger. Robert The Rebuilder (talk) 15:17, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Mine was a hasty and poorly stated comment. I think that having a separate article for a species (Vanessa cardui) is useful and conventional.  The article at Painted Lady is about a group (subgenus), including three other species, which also have their own articles.  It would seem that if the topic of one species should be merged into that of the group, then so too should the other three's, but that would be unexpected and not in the service of learning.  That's my thinking, anyway.
 * I could see a case for moving Vanessa cardui to Painted Lady, and moving the topic of the subgenus to Cynthia (subgenus) (or some such), since the other Painted Lady butterflies are listed by common name and probably most people entering "Painted Lady" are looking for the species, not the somewhat esoteric topic of the subgenus. ENeville (talk) 01:27, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Edits
Section of behavior, particularly in terms of breeding in relation to migration, was added. Ichooxu (talk) 21:16, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Painted lady
I never heard it called cosmopolitan in the United States. It is painted lady, nothing else, as this website shows Red Admiral and Painted Lady Research Site. How about changing that? --Polinizador (talk) 19:12, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Possible Additions?
As part of a course on Behavioral Ecology, I have been assigned to look at some Lepidoptera pages and comment on what might be worth adding. A few suggestions I had:	I thought the article could have benefited from a more detailed look at its defense interactions, which was only minimally mentioned even though they have unique defense mechanisms during different parts of its life cycle. Another area that could be more established concerns its human interactions. Is there more information on why these butterflies are commonly bred for human release, perhaps because of their orange color (similarity to monarchs)? --Engelde (talk) 14 Sept. 2017

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Egg size indication
Could the size of the egg be given? The photograph gives no indication and the information would be of interest to amateur naturalists keen on conservation.

Franciscus montmartinensis (talk) 09:35, 7 March 2020 (UTC)