The Painted Lady Butterfly, scientific name Vanessa cardui. What an amazing change from a caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. Metamorphosis never ceases to amaze me with such dramatic charges in body form. It is mind boggling how this species goes through 5 stages of larvae, then chrysalis, and finally butterfly with such dramatic changes in body form each time. What I like is my response to the insect; while the caterpillar is interesting to me for some instinctive reason I find the design of the insect in the final stages to be beautiful.