It might be Common Bushbrown (Mycalesis perseus). If the place where a butterfly is mudpuddling is totally dry, it squirts the water from it's body and then puddles. Sometimes the patch need not be visibly moist or wet, even if it's slightly wet or has blotch of water droplets, its good enough. Also, if the place is excessively wet, during puddling they get rid of the water continously after absorbing the nutrients.
Having said this, the behavior you explained could be a territorial behavior, but the butterfly left it's territory as it probably got disturbed by your presence or something else. Kishen On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Amol Pendharkar <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hello > Below is the attached picture taken at Yeeor a place near thane on > 16.03.2010. > I am unable to identify the butterfly. > This brown butterfly was coming and settling on this particular leaf for > few seconds and again flying of again to come and settle on the same leaf. > This continued for about five minutes. After that it flew away into the > jungle and did not come back. > But the leaf was not moist nor wet so it was not absorbing anything from > the leaf. > So why did it display such kind of behavior. Can someone please explain > this behavior. > Thank You > Amol Pendharkar > > > -- Enjoy To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
