Orange Albatross

Description:

Puddling Orange Albatross. Butterflies often gather in groups on wet sand or mud. This activity is called mud-puddling or simply puddling. They do it to obtain the minerals that are found in the soil. In many species puddling behaviour is restricted to males, and the presence of an assembly of butterflies on the ground acts on as a stimulus to join the presumptive mud-puddling flock.

Habitat:

Lowland forest.

Notes:

The Orange Albatross is the only species of butterfly in the world that is entirely orange in color. Originating in Indonesia, males and females are similar, but with one exception, the females have a black border and black veining running throughout their fore wings and hind wings they have much less boldness in their coloring than the males.