Spotting

all male I am told

Had some help with this from another site - "There are 8 species in the photo. You will have to match the name to the butterfly yourself, but the species are: Small orange tip (Colotis evagore), Brown-veined white (Belenois aurota), African Veined White (Belenois gidica), African migrant (Catopsillia florella), Common grass yellow (Eurema hecabe), Broad-bordered grass yellow (Eurema brigitta), Veined Swordtail (Graphium leonidas), Bushveld Charaxes (Charaxes achaemenes) and one which is probably an Albatros/Diverse white (Appias epaphia/sabina). In the video there is also an African Common White (Belenois creona) which is not in the photo."

thanks Kathleen and Yuko!

Amazing!

Incredible!

dotun55 - fabulous shots on flicker. Are they yours? Makes me wish for a better camera. The wiki says only males? Does this mean there are 4 kinds of butterflys here? I thought male and females might look different of the same species? So I was thinking only 2 kinds? On the farms they do this in the dip spray that is sprayed on cars as they drive onto the farm. Could this poisen them?

thank you dotun55 - will follow up up.

This the largest mud-puddling party I've ever seen. Kudos for the shot!
Here are related finds...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotun55/874...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotun55/890...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotun55/889...

You may also want to read this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud-puddling] to learn more about this butterfly behavior.

Thanks. But they all dressed up in thier glad rags LaurenZarate

Beautiful picture!

Everyone came for the food and no one brought presents :(

mud puddling......feeding on some mineral..

Very cool! So many different species. And haha Adarsha, very clever!

Wow! seems like a party there!
But difficult to find whose birthday :P

thanks folks - yes probably getting minerals...

Wouw..happy family..wonderful pic Castle...:)

Getting minerals!