r/butterfly

First time I’ve seen it in the yard. Don’t know what attracted it.

TL;DR- Found a lethargic butterfly outside and fed it, then it flew off :)

Stepped out of my apartment and noticed this little guy was laying near the bottom of the wall near my door. I live on the second floor and thought it might just have been resting because of the intense heat but when I realized it was still there a while later I figured it might not have the energy to get up.

Made some sugar water and tried to gently guide it to it but it didn't seem able to flap its wings or move much. Finally mashed up some banana with a bit of water and got it to drink from that. It crawled around a little after that and by the time I got a stick to relocate it to a plant, it started fluttering up and then flew off. Most magical moment of my summer 🥰✨ New neighbors who were moving in probably think I'm crazy now, I was out there with a butterfly on a dinner plate for like an hour 😂

It took me a while, but I cut out all of the butterflies and tried making paper butterfly specimen shadow box. I hope to do a life sized paper butterfly set in the future! Do you have any suggestions for my next paint subjects? :)

I also made the butterflies into stickers :D

So, I found a butterfly in the office about 5 hours ago. Initially thought it was dead, it just randomly fell onto my head then the floor. A while later it started flexing it's wings a little so I put a sugarwater-soaked tissue next to it. eventually started moving more and appeared to drink from the tissue. The psychos I work with wanted to throw it out of the window so I brought it home in an improvised cardboard box with some holes in it and more sugarwater tissues, it somehow survived the journey.

Just got it home, it's in a quiet dark place, in the same box with tissues. It can't fly but can move very small distances, and will occationally flex it's wings open. mostly, it stays still with it's wings folded upward. Is there anything I can do to help it, other than leave it alone for a few hours and see if it starts fluttering around so I can release it?

I'm pretty attached to it now, it's name is The Strange Visitor. Any help would be appreciated!

It flew off soon after these photos were taken. Spotted in Northwestern Alabama.

this butterfly is a Common Buckeye!

It's the end of butterflies: series 1.

Secret: there were actually 12... but the blue morpho footage got corrupted :')

Not a butterfly but fascinating moth.

🦋

One more butterfly left in the series. I'll post tomorrow <3

I found her hanging out under my rose bush (maybe a newborn?), and she stayed with me for a few hours, even landing on me a couple of times. She flew away after a few hours but circled back to land near me and then flew away, I think, to say her final goodbye. It really made me think it was someone departed that I knew.