Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 20, 1 by Sheila_FW

Sheila_FW wrote:
Cool looking sunglasses you cutie has on there! LOL!
Christine, most will dry and be ready to fly in a few hours, but they aren't ready to nectar necessarily. Sometimes not at all the first day from what I have read and been told. So I make sure not to hurry mine anymore. I wait until in the afternoon to release them. Even still I will have them close to flowering bushes and they still fly up into the trees and hang. Guess it is a stressful process.

The Botanic Garden here is having a butterfly tag and release Sat. With all of the warm weather the Monarchs have been slow to come down to TX. So I called the lady in charge and asked if she needed my Monarchs that would eclose this week, and she took me up on it gladly. Then came the shocker!
She told me to place them in envelopes,in a sandwich container with a wet sponge; then put them in the refrigerator!! I thought she was kidding but after looking out on the internet, I found out that is the way they ship them live. So I did it....quickly!
She has already got three and will pick up five more from me in the morning. Though I would take a picture to let you see how strange it looks.....But if you up north have bf's eclose and winter weather has set in up there, you can ship them south with cold packs in the box.
Sheila