Butterfly Specimen

This post may contain affiliate links, sponsored content and products received at no cost.

6:00 AM

We are not a pet family. We are an allergic-to-everything family.

My daughter found an injured butterfly.

It's wing was damaged and was unable to fly.
It fluttered a bit, but that was it.

My girl loved that it would sit on her finger.
I told her she could keep it...whose allergic to a butterfly, right?
I knew it would just die soon anyway, because it couldn't fly...

We fed the Buckeye butterfly, named Luna, a mixture of sugar water and a drop of soy sauce.
Mostly, she lived in a 1/2 gallon mason jar with a net lid...and lots of leaves.

And she got some outside time every day.

Much to my surprise, she lived for 3 entire weeks!

Now, because trashing her seemed like a shame...we carefully clipped her wings off...