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Butterfly in house - Jan 2015

  • 11-01-2015 7:13pm
    #1
    misschoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭


    Hi guys there is a butterfly in my bedroom attached to the curtain and I'm not sure whether I should put it outside or not as I think it may be hibernating. Will it die if I put it out or what would I do? Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The only place to put it would be a dry garage or shed at this time of year. It's probably a hibernating small tortoiseshell


  • #3
    misschoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭misschoo


    Everly Hallowed Topaz wrote: »
    The only place to put it would be a dry garage or shed at this time of year. It's probably a hibernating small tortoiseshell

    It's a Red Admiral. When I opened the curtains yesterday it flew off & then it was on the curtain this morning. I'm happy to leave it be rather than let it out into the cold.


  • #4
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    misschoo wrote: »
    It's a Red Admiral. When I opened the curtains yesterday it flew off & then it was on the curtain this morning. I'm happy to leave it be rather than let it out into the cold.

    Spot on! The heat probably woke it.


  • #5
    March11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭March11


    Am wondering about this too. Have a good few in the house, one guy in the sitting room was flying around a few days ago and is now on window sill, I even put water near him yesterday as I thought he looked dry or something! But do red admirals hibernate or what? Have a few others who obviously came into the house in with the late warm weather and seem to have died.


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Yes they hibernate. The heat of the house woke it. It's a bit early to put it outside but if awake it will need to feed. You could try putting it in a cold shed or garage and it may go back into hibernation. If you have early flowering heathers, as I have, you could risk placing it on them. There are ways to feed them with sugar water but it is tricky.


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  • #7
    March11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭March11


    Great thanks, so many have died in the house that I am hell bent on trying to help some of them will put it in the garage in a while so.


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