Abstract
Butterflies, mostly the male congregate and uptake the sodium and amino acids from the mud, dung, and urine of mammals or decaying flesh and then transferred to the female during mating. This behaviour is usually called as puddling. Hence, the objective of the present study was to identify the puddle butterflies in the Soraya river banks, their sex and age ratio. Five sampling points were observed for three hours (09:00-12:00 am) during 5 d each. The number of individual and number of species of butterflies that do puddlings were observed. A total of 25 species of butterflies belonging to four families were identified. Appias lyncida and Graphium sarpedon were the most active in puddling followed by Caleta elna, Pathysa antiphates and Appias lybithea. Generally, butterflies that do puddle were the male and the young individual.
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