My Bedroom Guest
 

I still have my uninvited guest in the bedroom, the red admiral butterfly. I would have taken a picture of the lodger to post on here if the thieving Sony gits didn't still have my camera :mad:

I've grown quite attached to it now but I need some advice from other pet butterfly enthusiasts please.

How do I sex it to see if it's a Norman or Phyllis and what do butterflys eat? :confused:

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Well you lot were no help lol! I've found the information I was looking for.

Sounds like the butterfly can stay. They don't pee, pooh or eat and most importantly ......... they don't snore!! :D

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Don't know anything about butterflies. But when i saw the title of this thread i thought what had you been up to.

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Did actually look it up when you mentioned before Tinks .. think they only survive in UK around 10 weeks, so you are lucky and please don't let it out ... it will surely perish.

Bet you got to talking to it now, haven't you :D .. least won't answer you back . hope Mthead doesn't get too jealous or its days could be numbered :eek:

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LOL!! Sara, Moi? Why would you think that :D

Kate, when I took tea and toast up to Norman/Phyllis last night mthead said I think you've become attached to that butterfly ..... :( 'THAT' Butterfly he/she has a name

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Eeew hek! Not only the tea that was brewing then ! Best to give it a non-sexist name for now I guess so you can't go wrong then. Evelyn ?

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Call it Nelson,after the famous admiral,or Nelsonne if you must.Or Adaire,after the famous firefighter.

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My little sweetie passed away on Christmas Eve (thankfully, what do you get a butterfly for Christmas:confused: ) . I'm presuming it was an owd sod living for so many months!! Thanks to the wonders of the internet I found out that Ralph was actually a tortoise butterfly not an Admiral ;)

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The last butterfly I had in my bedroom was on an unmentionable part of a females anatomy ,via a tattoo.:D

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AHhhhhhhh nite nite tinks sweet little bedroom friend

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Awww it's been posthumously named :)

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Sorry to hear that Tinkerbelle, the passing of little 'it'. Can you not do one of those picture thingies that were popular once, stuck on a pin and framed .. would be a lovely memorial .. not sure how you preserve them though. :rolleyes:

Or has it by now just been flushed down the great sewers and out to sea.:(

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I don't know how it's done katex or I probably would.

No it's not been flushed away or anything, it's still on the lavender cushion that it enjoyed resting on.

Might have a quick look on t'internet for a crash course on taxidermy ;)

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