No problem, Jeanne. I don't tend to see butterflies puddling like that here in Florida. Not in groups, anyway; I'll just see one at a time. I think maybe because our "soil" is just sand and we don't have a lot of minerals in it. I was in WV one time visiting my grandparents back before I raised butterflies. We were hiking up a hill to a cemetery (genealogy is my other hobby). Near where we parked there were all these Tiger Swallowtails on the ground in a big group. My grandpa remarked, "A horse must have peed there." And we just kept walking. It wasn't until I started raising butterflies that I realized Grandpa knew what he was talking about. Granted, I can't help but wonder what he would think of me raising caterpillars. I guess as long as they didn't eat his vegetables we could have come to an understanding. Then again, he loved Pawpaws and my favorite butterfly is the Zebra Swallowtail (their host plant is Pawpaw). But they eat the leaves, not the fruits so I think he would have been okay with it. One day we'll get to talk about it, I suppose.
