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Non-Pests Insects Butterflies, mud puddling, collecting salt, India

Butterflies, mud puddling

October 2007. The soil collected from places where butterflies, Catopsilia sp., mud-puddle in Chhattisgarh, India, is also used as traditional medicine. The question asked was, what is special about this soil?

http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104545
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104546
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104528
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104545

The butterflies are likely “mud-puddling”, looking for salts and other nutrients. Papilio demoleus (104545), Catopsilia sp. (possibly several species) (104546), and Hypolimnus sp. (104528), will be males, as salts sequestrated from the liquids ingested are transferred to the female during copulation.