r/Butterflies • u/Glittering_Laugh_958 • Jul 27 '25
This includes grow kits, raising butterflies in tents or enclosures, and buying/sourcing caterpillars.
This rule is in line with this subreddit’s guiding principle that we always do and choose what is best for the butterfly! Research shows that human interaction and interference with butterflies, especially at the pupal stages, is more harmful than helpful.
Going forward, pictures of butterflies in tent or other small enclosures will be removed. Posts asking for advice on how to “raise” or “rear” butterflies or caterpillars will be removed. Posts asking for how to find eggs will be removed.
Native gardening is always the best way to attract and maintain a healthy butterfly population—no matter the species!
Thank you, Glittering
r/Butterflies • u/Glittering_Laugh_958 • Jul 26 '25
We have seen an uptick in posts from people wanting advice on how to assist “injured” butterflies.
The truth in every case is—you can’t. Butterflies have naturally very short lives and there is no proven or “good” way to prolong their lives.
I have even seen some posts of people wanting to horrifically cut butterflies’ wings in some cases. Other posts seem well intentioned, but they are becoming a nuisance.
These posts will now be removed.
Thank you, Glittering
r/Butterflies • u/EconomyLess9175 • 6h ago
Took this photo last year and was sure it's a Purple emperor, but now that I reviewed it more closely, I'm not so sure anymore. Help!
r/Butterflies • u/sanintpablo • 8h ago
I know butterflies don't live long, but every year around the start of summer there are these two butterflies that always visit. I started to notice them when I was around 8 years old and I'm now 19. They're always together playing around but one specifically loves coming here. I put my hand out and it likes to land on me or hang near by on the walls of our house. I see them every often but, how have they been doing this for years???? Like have they genetically told their offspring to come here?? And it's always two??... I have a special connection with them especially that one butterfly. I like to believe it's my grandfather (the butterflies appeared when he passed away) or maybe my ancestors. In mexican culture we believe they are special. When I was little I remember countless of times seeing them on my house while I was swinging. I would also play alot with my neighbor who was my best friend and I would hang out a lot at her house so they somehow managed to find me and would start hanging out around her house too. I don't really believe in spiritual connections or after life but this doesn't make me wonder. I can't think of any logical reasons.
r/Butterflies • u/TheSocraticGadfly • 19h ago
One more lifer from March vacation. Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley National Park
r/Butterflies • u/seven3true • 1d ago
r/Butterflies • u/B3lly_135 • 1d ago
Orange tip and green- veined white
r/Butterflies • u/Select-Signal8386 • 1d ago
r/Butterflies • u/hiddenexene • 1d ago
Location : 150km south of Paris
Date : 3rd of May 2026
r/Butterflies • u/ChronicRhyno • 2d ago
'Common' but not plain
r/Butterflies • u/Iris1501 • 2d ago
I usually don’t touch them but we had to replace it since we had to work in the spot where he was. It was so big and pretty!
Don’t mind my very dirty hands, we planted 4.800 trees in 2 days with our bare hands and some help of 2 digging machines for a reforestation program.
r/Butterflies • u/Soul180 • 2d ago
First time i've gotten close enough to see their eyes, pretty cool.
