Raising Painted Lady Butterflies Part 2

So we are ready to move the butterflies to their new home, well temporary home. Here are some pictures of them after they turned into crysalides. I put them up high on a shelf for this part because this is their most vulnerable stage, even though it seems to be a time of rest it is really a time of rapid change for them.




After leaving them there for a little less than a week I moved them to their habitat very very very carefully :P Right under the top of the lid is a paper disk which is what the butterflies are actually attached too so I simply took of the lid and carefully moved the butterflies through small door on the side of the habitat and pinned them to the wall. Two of them fell off but I just put them on a paper towel and according to the directions they should be okay.








It should be be about another week and we will have some pretty butterflies to release is our garden (well the start of our garden)! Stay tuned!