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Raising Butterflies Anonymous Thu Apr 18 03:17:15 2019 No.1595143 [Reply] [Original]

Hello.

As a project to make things more beautiful I have decided to breed local butterflies.

The reason for this is yesterday while I was planting strawberries, a large peacock butterfly came and landed on the patch and sat with me for a good 30 minutes, only to move to a window and sit for most of the afternoon.

It was a very spiritual experience and prompted me to firstly discover it's type, which I have not had the pleasure of seeing before - but also the desire to breed them for release.

The larvae are relatively cheap and these particular butterflies thrive on stinging nettles. Some varieties of the exotic prefer rotten fruit and citrus - however these will bring havok to the locality so can't be released.

A few monarchs have found there way across the ocean but we don't produce milkweed here.

>>	Milwaukee Thu Apr 18 03:37:41 2019 No.1595153 >>1595143 >but also the desire to breed them for release. just jerk off instead its a lot less work

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 03:39:16 2019 No.1595154 >>1595153 What a selfish thing to post on my thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 03:47:39 2019 No.1595158 >>1595153 Are you brain damaged?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 03:56:26 2019 No.1595163 Butterflies and moths are among the most threatened groups of wildlife in the UK.

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Anonymous Thu Apr 18 04:01:43 2019 No.1595164
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Holly blue butterfly makes a welcome UK comeback after years of scarcity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/12/holly-blue-butterfly-makes-welcome-uk-comeback-after-years-scarcity

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Anonymous Thu Apr 18 04:03:07 2019 No.1595166

A butterfly locked in a cyclical struggle with a parasitic wasp has bounced back this summer after years of scarcity, according to the world’s largest annual insect count.

The holly blue, the only blue butterfly regularly seen flying in gardens and city centres, increased by 151% on 2014 in Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count.

It was a welcome return for the azure insect, whose populations boom every six years or so due to its relationship with a parasitic wasp, Listrodomus nycthemerus. The wasp injects a single egg into the living Holly Blue caterpillar via a syringe-like sting. The wasp larva develops within the caterpillar, eventually killing it after it has changed into a chrysalis.

The parasite is completely dependant on the holly blue and can be almost too successful – killing all 100 caterpillars monitored in some scientific studies. Once holly blue numbers have been drastically reduced, the wasp’s population crashes as well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 04:04:13 2019 No.1595168 File: 360 KB, 800x600, Gatekeeper.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The gatekeeper was the most commonly seen species, with numbers up 17% compared to last summer, with the large white in second place with a 46% rise.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 04:10:00 2019 No.1595169 >>1595164 What they eat: Adults drink oozing sap, aphid honeydew and carrion juices. Caterpillars usually eat holly and ivy, but also dogwood, spindle and heathers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:33:26 2019 No.1595248 Can't wait to get my butterflies

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:47:33 2019 No.1595253 >>1595154 >>1595158 Well I got it. It was funny.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:51:15 2019 No.1595254 >>1595253 Not for me, it makes me uncomfortable and that is selfish to do, to make someone uncomfortable for your jokes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:52:34 2019 No.1595255 >>1595253 It's not normal to speak like that. It's shocking and disgusting in it's flippancy. What kind of debased individuals produce a being like that?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:53:42 2019 No.1595257 Zero manners I don't give a shit if your parents run the fortune 500, you were raised in moral squalor and to think speaking in such a manner is acceptable as banter? Shows how unfunny you all really are.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:54:53 2019 No.1595258 Comedy is an art I don't know what the fuck you are all up to But it's lazy, lacking in talent and generally accepted because you are all three degrees away from crack whores

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:56:57 2019 No.1595259 Go outside you fucking degenerate assholes and stop bringing your perpetual wanking into every aspect of your life you reprobates

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:58:18 2019 No.1595260 you ruined my thread you fucking ruined it a thread about FUCKING BUTTERFLIES AND YOU COULDN'T KEEP YOUR GREASY PAWS OFF IT DIEE

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 08:59:39 2019 No.1595261 Well I feel better. You don't because you live in the muck but not as unicorns, as wood louse lost on an Ikea voyage far from the ranch. Get fucked. God rules Supreme, Amen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 09:03:55 2019 No.1595263 File: 175 KB, 960x960, 1410532860106.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1595254 >>1595257 >>1595258 >>1595259 >>1595260 >>1595261

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 09:26:59 2019 No.1595270 >>1595163 i think you mean white people

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 09:31:53 2019 No.1595272 >>1595260 this is not a good thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 17:24:57 2019 No.1595466 >>1595270 Thats an animal we can do without

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 17:30:10 2019 No.1595471 >>1595466 You need white people for welfare, you'll die without them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 20:16:36 2019 No.1595525 >>1595254 take it easy, he was obviously making a dumb joke and you should expect much worse things from 4chan

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 21:07:54 2019 No.1595556 >>1595143 Also see: >>>/out/1496297 & >>>/an/2994618

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 19 15:39:21 2019 No.1595936 >>1595143 I suggest having one part of your grass area replaced by a patch of wild growing wildflower mix that only gets cut twice or thrice a year, as some species lay eggs into buds of specific wildflowers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 11:37:29 2019 No.1597589 >>1595143 Love your idea anon. Start a general on this I'd check in to see your process/progress.