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  2. Chrysalis (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Chrysalis is located in the entrance of the Marion Chester Read Center. Marion Chester Read pays tribute to the legacy of the Chester Read family, and more specifically, Marion, who continues to inspire others by her support of the Girl Scouting and the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast. 1921, Alice Chester, a community activist and philanthropist, became the first president of the local ...

  3. West Coast lady - Wikipedia

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    Like the latter, it also lacks a white dot in the pinkish-orange subapical field of the ventral and dorsal forewings. Its upperwing coloration has the purest orange of the three; the American painted lady is usually quite reddish. A less reliable indicator is the row of black eyespots on the dorsal submarginal hindwing.

  4. Vanessa cardui - Wikipedia

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    Equally important for the reproduction of the painted lady butterflies is the males' exhibition of polygynous mating behaviour, in which they often mate with more than one female. [32] This is important for painted lady butterflies because the benefits may supersede the costs of polygyny [33] since no permanent breeding ground is used. Upon ...

  5. Australian painted lady - Wikipedia

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    Australian painted lady Victoria, Australia Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Vanessa Species: V. kershawi Binomial name Vanessa kershawi (McCoy, 1868) Synonyms Cynthia kershawi McCoy, 1868 Vanessa cardui kershawi The Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi) is a species of butterfly ...

  6. Vanessa carye - Wikipedia

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    Vanessa carye, the western painted lady, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South America , from the mountains of Colombia and west of Caracas ( Venezuela ) through Ecuador , Peru , Bolivia , Chile , southern Brazil , and Paraguay to Patagonia in Argentina .

  7. Conservation and restoration of paintings - Wikipedia

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    Oil paint is a medium made up of pigments and a drying oil binding agent. Various other ingredients can be mixed in to condition the paint in several ways and modify its various properties and drying. [1] Oil paintings are painted on various surface support types. Oil on canvas, oil on board, and oil on metal are only some examples of oil ...

  8. Trillium undulatum - Wikipedia

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    Trillium undulatum, commonly called painted trillium, painted lady (not to be confused with the painted lady butterfly), or trille ondulé in French, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the bunchflower family Melanthiaceae. It is also known as smiling wake robin or striped wake-robin.

  9. Dry rot treatment - Wikipedia

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    The overall cost of using the environmental approach to the treatment of dry rot is likely to be less than the orthodox approach. [ 11 ] [ 23 ] Dr. Ridout quotes a case study where an initial quote for orthodox treatment of a building was £23,000 but subsequent treatment by environmental methods resulted in a saving of one third in remedial ...