Take care of butterfly
At home, a butterfly needs to be fed 1-3 times a day and sometimes sprayed with clean water at room temperature from a flower sprayer (or maintain high humidity in the room using a steam humidifier).The normal temperature for a butterfly is 23 – 30 *C. The butterfly can live at lower temperatures, even up to +15 *C, but it will be sleepy and inactive. When the temperature rises, it will return to normal.
Since the butterfly always flies towards the light, it will tend to the window, especially in sunny weather, and to light sources. In this regard, the following simple rules should be observed:
1) Close the windows in the room where the butterfly lives.
2) Move the tulle so that the butterfly does not hit the glass (this will save the wings).
3) If there is a chandelier in the room with shades in the form of a bowl turned upwards,Don't turn it on! The butterfly might die if it flies in there.
4) Keep the butterfly away from pets!At night, the butterfly can be placed in a box with a piece of damp cloth inside, or left to sleep on a wall or curtain.
Другой вариант преподнести живых бабочек в подарок – подарить их вместе с букетом цветов, а точнее – на букете. Бабочки помещаются на цветы, под упаковочной плёнкой, и букет… оживает! После вручения такого букета, его можно открыть и выпустить бабочек порхать по комнате.
Feeding. Some species of butterflies in the wild feed on flower nectar, while others feed on the juice from the pulp of overripe fruits. Butterflies that feed on the pulp of fruits find food by smell and appearance, but in order to start feeding, they must sit down and touch the food with their front legs, equipped with taste buds. Only then, having made sure that the food is edible, the butterfly unfolds its proboscis and begins to drink the juice. Therefore, at home, it is enough to put such a butterfly on a piece of overripe banana or a freshly cut juicy orange so that it itself unfolds its proboscis and begins to feed. Such butterflies, for example, include the Moon butterfly, the Golden-eye Biblis, and the Tiger Sylvia.
For butterflies that prefer flower nectar, the best option is to place a bouquet of bright, fragrant garden or wild flowers in the brightest place in the room. Lupines, lilies, bells and other Russian flowers are to the taste of most tropical butterflies. Butterflies themselves fly to the flowers and drink the nectar of flowers with their long proboscis.If the conditions in the room are not suitable for feeding butterflies (e.g. there is no place to put a bouquet, not enough space, not enough lighting, not high enough temperature or simply no flowers), then you can feed such butterflies yourself.
These butterflies can also drink fresh fruit juice, such as freshly squeezed orange juice, or sweet homemade jam or honey diluted with water (10-15%). However, "flower" butterflies have poorly developed taste buds on their legs, or none at all. The butterfly needs to taste the food with the tip of its proboscis. Therefore, you need to carefully take the butterfly with two fingers by the very base of the wings (but not by the edges!), from the front, near the abdomen near the head. With your other hand, take a toothpick or a pin and unfold the butterfly's proboscis so that its tip touches a drop of juice. The butterfly's proboscis is curled into a ring and is located on the bottom of the head. You need to stick the pin through this ring and then simply lower it down. In practice, this is quite simple.As soon as the butterfly starts drinking the juice, you can release it and leave it until it is full. After that, the butterfly will curl its proboscis and fly away or remain sitting and resting.It is best to apply a drop of juice to a wooden surface, such as a cutting board, so that the butterfly can easily cling to the surface with its legs and not slip.The "flower" butterflies include such species as the Lemon Swallowtail, Golden Birdwing and others.