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What Is Mud-Puddling, IFS Officer Parveen Kaswan Explains

Indian Forest Service Officer Parveen Kaswan shared a beautiful video of butterflies that showed a group of black and yellow butterflies on a forest ground.
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Indian Forest Service Officer Parveen Kaswan shared a beautiful video of butterflies on his Twitter handle that showed a group of black and yellow butterflies busying themselves on a forest ground. Explaining the video, Mr. Kaswan worte, “Called as mud puddling. Where butterflies gather to collect salts. From a random visit.”

In another tweet, Mr. Kaswan added a picture of the butterflies sharing that the mud puddling is done mostly by males. They collect salts and pheromones to attract females. They collect them from small pool of water, dung, mud etc.


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