Comments on: Pet Butterfly Guide: How To Raise & Care For British Butterflies https://earthlife.net/raising-pet-british-butterflies/ An encyclopedia of life on earth Sun, 01 Oct 2023 06:21:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gordon Ramel https://earthlife.net/raising-pet-british-butterflies/#comment-5929 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 03:52:27 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=3797#comment-5929 In reply to Pam Erskine.

Hi Pam, if you want to feed it use diluted honey water. Jus off it in a bottle cap, if the butterfly wants it it will take it. However mid-March would be the time for the first spring emergence of hibernating Peacocks so you might want to put it somewhere where it can escape if it wants.

]]> By: Pam Erskine https://earthlife.net/raising-pet-british-butterflies/#comment-5918 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:59:40 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=3797#comment-5918 Hello Gordan,
My Peacock Butterfly has lived in my medieval cottage all winter. But as I was fearful of sucking it up in the vacuum cleaner I eventually put it in a large plastic old fashioned ‘sweetie’ jar. We are still getting frosts here in Surrey UK so I am frighted to set it free outside. Should I feed it? When I put the jar in the in the warm sunshine it flaps its wings energetically. It always sleeps on the black lid inside the jar. It seems quite happy and I would like to save it from dying. Can you advise me? I get them every year!

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