1 Dainty Swallowtail at Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Papilio anactus | 3 Feb 2022 | SuziBond | ||
| Papilio anactus | 3 Feb 2022 | Amata | ||
| Unidentified | 3 Feb 2022 | HelenCross |
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User's notes
Presumably drinking beside the creek, and weeing?!
2 comments
SuziBond
wrote:
3 Feb 2022
Hi Helen, this fascinating behaviour is called mud-puddling, where the butterfly finds wet patches of soil and drinks the moisture in order to access nutrients or salts in the moisture. Impressive that you've also managed to capture the butterfly in the process of excreting the excess water obtained during the mud-puddling! Great shots.
HelenCross
wrote:
3 Feb 2022
Thanks Suzi, At first I thought it must have been laying eggs but then I looked up where it does so, and it's not in sand!
Location information
- Maps Lions Youth Haven - Westwood Farm A.C.T.
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 3 Feb 2022 02:38 PM Recorded on
- HelenCross Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Swallowtails (Papilionidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) HelenCross
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Papilio anactus Scientific name
- Dainty Swallowtail Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 870m Recorded at altitude
- 379 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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