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Belenois aurota
From Lepidopterist, Mr Steve Woodhall, a few facts on these butterflies: “These Butterflies have a burst migration, a dispersal mechanism that relieves overcrowding in one area and spreads the progeny all over the place. It happens not only here but in Kenya and also in Asia where the same species occurs. Ours originate in the Kalahari and move east from there. When they start they are sexually immature, and they develop as they travel. They are known to get as far as Madagascar, and maybe even further. There is another population centre in the KZN thornveld, and occasionally a burst comes from there and they go west.”
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