author(s)
Amol Patwardhan

abstract
Out of 142 species of butterflies recorded 128 (90.14%) species were seen puddling and 14 species never came to wet soil. The family Riodinidae was the dominant species as there is only one species that has high affinity for puddling followed by Nymphalidae where 95% species puddled where as in Papilionidae 80% species puddled. Based on behavioural few hypotheses are proposed like groupism, fight, predation, hangover etc.