<div class="field field--name-field-common-name field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Mottled Emigrant

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Malcolm Wilton-Jones

Thanks Chime

Hi Malcolm Wilton Jones, Thank you for informing me regarding the importance of one upload - one species thing. I understand and have edited this to one species name and have named the other in the description part. :) Cheers.

Malcolm Wilton-Jones

While we are happy to accept multiple species spottings along with their interesting stories, being a database program which runs off reports, the scientific name field is our prime species identifier and we ask that the scientific name field concentrates on a single species showing just the Genus + species of that species. Ideally a second spotting can be made for each of any other species noted in the spotting as this will increase the species counts and make them more accurate. Where this is done you make cross references to the other species in the notes section.

oops sorry.. i will correct it... ;)

Ashish

Chime.. actually here is no Clodeless sulpher... I think you wiped wrong Yellow Grass butterfly ID.

@ Ashish, that was spot on ID. :) name promptly changed to mottled emigrant.

Ashish

I see here Mottled Emigrant (Catopsilia pyranthe) butterflies. http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/India%20-%20Catopsilia%20pyranthe.htm

:) even i heard about mud puddling just now from karenL. :) this is a nice site to learn many things. And all you people are very resourceful. thank you KarenL and CherreyMaePanchoBartolata.

I'll go read the mud puddling.. I'm still learning... :-)

ok that explains it all.... pale greenish is male and heavily yellow is female of the cloudless sulphur... ;)

another cloudless sulfurs mating http://bugguide.net/node/view/147566 pale green and yellow

:) did you read that mud puddling behavior is mostly observed in male butterflies ??? Maybe cloudless sulphur females are special. ;)

and oh look, they might all be cloudless sulfur, males and females http://www.rlephoto.com/sulphurs/sulphur_cloudless01.htm look at the 3rd photo in that page, mating Cloudless sulphur, exactly those above! :-) I may have the sexes the other way around. "very pale greenish male and a very fresh heavily marked female. " according to that page

:) ok, i shall put up their names now... that was quick

I think the pale greens are females.. http://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/butterflies/cloudlesssulphur.htm

I think the pale greens are females

oh u are talking about the big ones !!! :) i don't know, they look bit whitish or pale greenish to me, but nowhere near yellowish. and i don't know if cloudless sulphurs are common in india. :)

yes, the yellow one, you're right about that Three-Spot Grass Yellow.. the greenish one, that's what I meant as the cloudless sulfur.. they seem to go from pale green/yellowish..

@ CherreyMaePanchoBartolata,,, is it really cloudles sulphur ? did you check the Three-Spot Grass Yellow , (Eurema blanda).

Carol Snow Milne

This is great. It is cold now here in the hills of the Poconos, but I saw a Yellow Sulfur flying around still as it was sunny and low 50's. WOW. I have to still post mine.

alicelongmartin

I like to see pictures of Butterflies "Puddling"! Thanks!

One identified http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurema_blanda

Ok KarenL, i will check that...

LarryGraziano

you can copy and paste the link for this page on one of ashish's photos.

You might be able to ID these from this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Pieridae)

Good idea! Some butterflies are also attracted to sweat - I regularly have hackberry emperors 'hitchhiking' on me when I'm doing yard work during the hot weather!

and yeah, i wish there was an option of "TAG BUTTON" like in facebook, so that i can tag Ashish on this pic. ;)

thank you karenL, that was very informative. Mud puddling and strangely sometimes blood and tears also attract some butterflies ;) Nice info right ;)

The butterflies are some kind of sulphur (Pieridae sp.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieridae I am sure Ashish will be able to give you an exact ID!