Date: 04/15/2007

Number: 1

What a treat to have some butterflies on the move again in Manitoba!

This afternoon (April 15) I photographed a Mourning Cloak and a
Milbert's Tortoiseshell keeping unusually close company on a patch of
damp road. The Milbert's pursued its companion very closely in
flight, then edged up to it when they alit. I'm not sure how to
interpret this:

1. Interspecific courtship?

2. Buddies celebrating the end of winter together?

3. Tortoiseshell treating Mourning Cloak as a mobile radiator and
windbreak?

4. Other interpretations?

I'm pretty sure the tortoiseshell is a male.

Contributed by Don Davis

Pinawa, MB

Latitude: 50.1 Longitude: -95.6

Observed by: Donald A.
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