Species Detail - Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Butterflies of Northern Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map

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Vanessa cardui
Painted Lady
NBNSYS0100005950 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
vacar
(Linnaeus, 1758)
insect - butterfly
Species
3879
158
28
11/06/2007
25/09/2021
1 January (recorded in 2019)
31 December (recorded in 2018)
Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland Branch, Butterflies of Northern Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/312/Species/77185>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)