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Agraulis vanillae
This little one was on a pile of dog in the backyard, and when I went out to take a picture he flew up to my hand. Maybe it is time to take a bath?
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Wow, thanks for the great info Karen. A friend and I came upon a carcass once engulfed in butterflies, we joked at the time they had brought the fox down. :)
He was mud puddling - male butterflies will visit mud, rotting fruit, rotting corpses of other organisms, urine & feces for nutrients they can't get from nectar alone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud-puddlin...