Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Feeding butterflies inside, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Well, it's still inside with me. I just can't put it outside when it's raining. I know it would be out there normally, but I was hoping for a small amount of sun just so it could warm itself up a bit. I fed it Gatorade again this morning. Has anyone else here done this? It's pretty neat. This butterfly is pretty docile, so I just picked it up, sat it on the cotton pad and used a toothpick to unroll it's probiscus. Once it figured out what it was, it sat for about 10 minutes sucking it down. I put it in a large hanging net cage so it could fly around more, but I suppose I'll let it out today, even tho the mother in me doesn't want to. It needs it's freedom. I'd like to learn how to tell if it's a male or female first tho. Anyone?