Feeding Butterfly

Keeping butterflies as pets is a wonderful idea for insect lovers. For kids keeping butterflies of captivating colors are of great fun to watch. Before keeping a butterfly as your pet you must know how to feed your pet. The following are some tips on feeding butterfly.

Tips on Feeding Butterfly

At first you are required to know the right diet of your pet insect. The ideal food of your butterfly would be a sugar solution. The solution should contain 10% of granulated sugar in water. If you are raising a butterfly in a butterfly kit, the following are some steps of feeding butterfly.

• You first you are required to prepare the food for your pet insect. Add one teaspoon full of sugar in two teaspoon full of water.
• Stir the mixture of water and sugar well so that the sugar gets completely dissolved in water.
• Then pour the mixture in a clean saucer. Introduce a Kleenex in the mixture until it gets completely saturated in water.
• Then keep the butterfly on top of the Kleenex.
• Dip the proboscis or the eating mouth part of the fly in the mixture with the help of a straightened part of a paper clip.
• Try to get the proboscis in touch with food mixture. Once the food comes in contact with the proboscis of the butterfly it will start feeding on itself.
• After feeding butterfly, introduce the insect in a saucer having luke warm water in order to wash of the sugar residue stuck in its feet.
• Then dry the feet of the insect by putting it on a dry Kleenex.
• After drying the feet place the butterfly inside the butterfly kit.

To lure your pet butterfly to food you may place an over ripe fruit in the garden or even place home made nectar for the insect. The following are some other ways by which you may try out for feeding butterfly.

• In your butterfly garden if you have an apple tree, cherry tree, plum or a pear tree, allow the fruits to fall off and allow them to ferment on the ground. The butterflies would love to feed on the juice of the fallen fruits.
• You may use the left over part of the banana or the orange skin in order to feed your pet butterfly.
• From a fruit shop you may get some unsaleable piece of fruits for the fly as well.
• To prepare a perfect treat for a butterfly you may try out with a fruit like banana. Store some bananas in the fridge until the skin of the fruit becomes black. Though unsightly, but you will find the pet butterfly is lovingly eating the mushy banana fruit inside the skin.
• If you find very few flowers in your garden you may prepare artificial nectar for feeding butterfly. You may dip some small pieces of clean sponge in a sugar solution and saturate it completely. Then hand the sugar saturated sponge pieces in the tree branches to feed the insects.

Remember the best way to attract butterflies towards food is to by placing a fermented and rotten fruits and vegetables. The small creature would relish eating the food which is otherwise nothing but a foul-smelling rotten fruit to you.