No, I have never seen this happen.
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:48:05 +0530 wrote
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Question for everybody: has anyone ever seen butterflies aggregate and
mud-puddle near sea-shores, drinking sea-water? If you have, some information
(location, species, approximately how many individuals) will help.
(This email obviously went unnoticed the first time, so I am re-posting it
since I find it hard to believe that among the many
members of this very active list nobody has ever seen butterflies drink
water on the sea-shores.)
Thank you,
Vazrick
From: Vazrick Nazari
To: [email protected]
Cc: Eddie John
Sent: Thu, June 23, 2011 8:56:22 AM
Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Fwd: Seawater puddling
I received this query from a friend who would like to know if anyone has
observed seawater puddling behavior in butterflies ... Any takers?
(Please reply to all)
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From: "Eddie John"
To: "Vazrick Nazari"
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 5:55:14 AM
Subject: Seawater puddling
Hi Vazrick,
I trust you are keeping well? I wonder if you can help very briefly, with an
inquiry, please?
I am preparing a paper with John Tennent on some observations of seawater
puddling - something witnessed independently by John and me - but there are
very
few published reports of this activity. My impression, so far, is that seawater
puddling is genuinely rare, rather than rarely reported.
So far, I have the following references:
Pe'er, G. 2002. Puddling observations in Israel. News of the Israeli
Lepidopterists Society 19(1): 13.
Pola, M & GarcÃa-ParÃs , M. 2005. Marine puddling in Papilio polytes
(Lepidoptera: Papilionidae.) Florida Entomologist 88 (2):211-213.
Tennent, W. J. 1997. Unusual behaviour in Papilio ulysses L., 1758 (Lep.:
Papilionidae). Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 109 : 156-157.
These refer to marine puddling, but are the only ones known to us, so I'm
checking with various contacts in an attempt to gauge the extent of this
activity. Is it something you've witnessed anywhere, please?
All the best,
Eddie
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www.cyprusbutterflies.co.uk
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