Mud-puddling Lincolnshire Whites
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 1:13 pm
During my trips to the French Alps, I have often found impressive groups of butterflies mud-puddling. More often than not these have been groups of Blues, but sometimes also Skippers, Fritillaries and even Erebias have been involved.
It is not a phenomenon that I have really experienced before in the UK to any degree.
The only similar experiences I have had were a handful of cases on the Isle Of White chalk down-lands, many years ago, when I would sometimes come across large groups of Chalkhill or Adonis Blues feasting on fox scat.
Today, as I pulled up by one of our local woods, there was a large group of Green-veined Whites puddling away: There is brief video footage here:
https://youtu.be/ii3hf4E_AYE
Anyone else seen this in the UK?
It is not a phenomenon that I have really experienced before in the UK to any degree.
The only similar experiences I have had were a handful of cases on the Isle Of White chalk down-lands, many years ago, when I would sometimes come across large groups of Chalkhill or Adonis Blues feasting on fox scat.
Today, as I pulled up by one of our local woods, there was a large group of Green-veined Whites puddling away: There is brief video footage here:
https://youtu.be/ii3hf4E_AYE
Anyone else seen this in the UK?