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Polyommatus icarus
Spotted on May 21, 2011
Submitted on Apr 26, 2012
3 Comments
Great capture of interesting behavior - this is called "mud puddling" & as Ava says it is so that they can get essential minerals. You can read more on it here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud-puddlin...
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Lovely series. I guess there are minerals in bird poo?