Mud-puddling behavior in tropical butterflies: In search of proteins or minerals?

Oecologia

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 140-148

  Beck, Jan ^a   Mühlenberg, Eva ^a   Fiedler, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Protein food; Reproductive biology; Sodium; Tropical butterflies; Visual cues

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MINERAL; MUD; OLFACTORY CUE; PROTEIN; VISUAL CUE;

BORNEO;

CALETA; EUREMA; HESPERIIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONIDAE; PIERIDAE; PROSOTAS;

EID: 0345711555     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050770     Document Type: Article

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