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Mud-puddling is the phenomenon mostly seen in butterflies and involves their aggregation on substrates like wet soil, dung and carrion to obtain nutrients such as salts and amino acids.
Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are diverse in their strategies to gather liquid nutrients. Typically, mud-puddling behavior takes place on wet soil. But even sweat on human skin may be attractive to butterflies. The most unusual sources include blood and tears.
This behaviour is restricted to males in many species. Males seem to benefit from the sodium uptake through mud-puddling behaviour with an increase in reproductive success. The collected sodium and amino acids are often transferred to the female with the spermatophore during mating as a nuptial gift. This nutrition also enhances the survival rate of the eggs.
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An early thaw, in late February, brings mud, puddles, ugly blackened snowbanks, and, where sugar maples grow, the running sap that will be boiled down into the nectar of the northeast, maple syrup. Doesn't that thought sweeten this dark view?
Rockport, MA
Even this old door lock was still coated in dry mud that has been leftover from the Great Brisbane Flood of early 2011
The result of my barefoot muddy fun! My feet so covered in mud that it was hard to tell that I was barefoot at all. The mud stuck with me right to the end of my walk. Going barefoot in mud is such an enjoyable experience - go do it!
On my walk yesterday I came across lots of frogs in a small stream. There were adult ones and plenty of froglets, many sunbathing under the watchful eye of the bigger frogs.
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Common Emigrant or Lemon Emigrant
Mud-puddling is the phenomenon mostly seen in butterflies and involves their aggregation on substrates like wet soil, dung and carrion to obtain nutrients such as salts and amino acids.
Near Suriname river. it's hundreds of them
i just like the color of them!
Rahul Nopani of the Akhara Siyaram mud wrestling club during his training routine at the Mullik Ghat, on the Hooghly River, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Kolkata. December 2017. © David Hill.
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Both Mud Monsters were over joyed to see me today.
And to celebrate their exuberance they continued to
crash into me with overwhelming speed and accuracy.
.So now I'm a Mud Monster too ...............;-)
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A rare sighting of the female of the species - Mud Monkey that is, Friday amongst the tents above the Pyramid stage. Glastonbury Festival 2007.
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