Creating a Tropical Butterfly House - The Complete Starter Guide - Tropical Butterflies UK

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Creating a Tropical Butterfly House - The Complete Starter Guide - Tropical Butterflies UK
Creating a Tropical Butterfly House - The Structure #1
Products used in this build:
Fine insect netting 2m x 10m - amzn.to/3zr8PJf
Magnetic net door - amzn.to/2TyTRQS
Creating a Tropical Butterfly House - The Conditions #2
Products used in this build:
Heater - amzn.to/35vsPg8
Socket timer - amzn.to/3vt8z9i
Thermometer - amzn.to/2TJcBgo
Humidity meter - amzn.to/3wDlBCv
Weather proof box - amzn.to/3q17Pat
Creating a Tropical Butterfly House - The Nectar Plants #3
Butterfly Necatar Plants Used:
Pentas lanceolata
Stachytarpheta
Lantana camara
Verbena
Lobelia
Marigolds
Creating a Tropical Butterfly House - Choosing the Butterflies #5
Our 10 chosen species:
Blue Morpho - Morpho peleides/ helenor
Leopard Lacewing - Cethosia cyane
Common Mormon - Papilio polytes
Lime Swallowtail - Papilio demoleus
Asian Swallowtail - Papilio lowi
Owl - Caligo memnon
Glasswing - Greta oto
Postman - Heliconius melpomene
Flame - Dryas julia
Eggfly - Hypolimnas bolina
Creating a Tropical Butterfly House - Ordering The Butterflies #6
Places you can order from:
The Entomologist - butterflypupae.com
Stratford Butterfly Farm - tropicalbutterflypupae.com
Stuarts Butterflies - stuartsbutterflies.co.uk
Worldwide Butterflies - wwb.co.uk
Creating a Tropical Butterfly House - Pests & Predators #9
Ant treatment:
amzn.to/2WWMgNM
Slug treatments:
Nemaslug amzn.to/3CjieDZ
Ferrimax amzn.to/3ip6xDX
Mealybug:
www.dragonfli.co.uk/collectio...
www.dragonfli.co.uk/collectio...
Aphids:
www.dragonfli.co.uk/collectio...
Spidermite:
www.dragonfli.co.uk/collectio...
Thrip:
www.dragonfli.co.uk/collectio...
Whitefly:
www.dragonfli.co.uk/collectio...
Website - tropicalbutterflies.co.uk
Instagram - / tropicalbutterfliesuk
TikTok - / tropicalbutterfliesuk
Facebook - / tropicalbutterfliesuk

[@montedaestrada3563]

I am thinking of doing this in the Alentejo region of Portugal for 2023 but concentrating on local species to start with. Very informative indeed. Many of the plants you mention are indigenous and common here and already in my garden. Many thanks. I will consult this often.

[@samharrison3994]

you should use your knowledge to raise uk species that are rare/suffering and release them that would be cool

[@basicviolet]

i think they’re rare because they only live for a week

[@snejanaraicici189]

Thank you very much for this video! Very useful 👏🏻👏🏻🙋🏼‍♀️

[@dianasluijk-bogdan9701]

Amazing video, followed every step, loved it!!

[@releasingendorphins232]

Incredible video. So informative. Thanks for sharing.

[@skydancer6068]

All your information was very helpful, thank you so much

[@user-bj2xy3eg9i]

ランタナ、ブットレアなど日本との共通種も出てきてなじみ深かったが、何と言ってもブルーモルフォの幼虫を飼育しているのには驚嘆した。無理だろうがトリバネチョウなども加えられたら最高だろうに。とにかく一度行ってみたいと思った。もっと若いころに知って居たらなぁ。素晴らしいビデオだ！

[@raelking8042]

I love this so much

[@VictorFursov]

Very nice butterflies. Thak you!

[@miguelangelvaldesuriarte123]

Thanks, this video was really useful. I'll need it to create a butterflies house. Grettings from Mexico.

[@georgepalmerin4514]

Since they are tropical, what do you do at fall winter time in the UK. Do you import the eggs from sources? Excellent best on tube. Just beautiful. i raise USA mid western butterflies.

[@amazingwonders8950]

Dream 😍🦋

[@jessicaderosa9625]

Wow

[@jayanthasanath354]

Supper

[@stanleystone49]

I watched your video 2times you should add a jatropa plant to your green house butterflies love it

[@CraigsOverijse]

wonderful informative I had no clue Slugs ate butterflies. I do not plan on keeping thdm but was interested in the subject.

[@stanleystone49]

Beautiful video I raise butterflies in ft Lauderdale I get monarch butterflies and swallowtail butterflies and sulphur butterflies I would love to have a butterfly house too maybe one day.

[@simoningate2056]

Planning to get a few species this year - with Covid wasn't possible in 2021.

[@DongExplorer]

❤️❤️❤️

[@allisonlaroy8325]

So neat! So what happens to all the wasps released in the greenhouse? Do they breed as well? Do you just have wasps in your greenhouse now too lol?

[@butterflymagicwings8926]

🥰🥰🥰

[@sean2val]

cool how is it you can have butterflies that are not native in England awesome video thank you cheers from sunny Queensland Australia

[@parisplayzz6368]

Can you do a care video on how to keep the plants alive

[@therealmothman665]

33:18 is that a small tortoishell that I see

[@acelya1793]

hey first thank you for the great video. it is just perfect and rich in information. I want to breed morpho butterfly soon. I have now bought 20 butterfly pupae and wanted to ask how many butterflies I have in 2 months. Since the butterflies also multiply. 😍

[@samketteringham6070]

So informative and a great place for me to start. Thank you. Can I ask what the climber was with the heart shaped leaves.

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

Thank you. The vine was the ipomea, (Morning Glory) which was grown from seed.

[@hernuchou2320]

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[@user-tp6ze6bk8o]

Are these instructions only for tropical species? If we plan on keeping just during the summer months, do you open the net to release them all at the end of summer? What if there are leftover eggs throughout the plants each time you clear the butterflies and the cycle keeps repeating itself through winter?

[@user-mo5fg3qi1v]

Hello, can you help me with information about raising butterflies?

[@trafalgar22a8]

130123 Lovely hobby.

[@michaelawallnerova4890]

Hi, thank you for an interesting video! I have also a question, why would not butteflies fly if the light level would be too low? Thank you for answer and wish you a lot of lucky butterflies! :)

[@starve6112]

Because they need the sun to increase their temperature and fly. It's also important for their navigation system

[@michaelawallnerova4890]

@@starve6112 And how does the light level affect their navigation system? Thank you for the reply. :)

[@starve6112]

@@michaelawallnerova4890 because flying insects like bees, butterflies and flies have 3 extra eyes on their head. I don't know how they are called in English. Anyway these organs can detect the light and the darkness to know where they are. It's more complicated than this but I can't tell you more since I 'm not English and I need a lot of scientific terms to explain. But in a few words that's all.

[@michaelawallnerova4890]

That's very interesting. Do you think you could give me more information on this, or technical terms by which I will be able to search further on the Internet? They can be in your language, I'll translate them in the translator. Thank you very much!

[@JTSIFY]

is it legal to have a personal tropical butterfly greenhouse in the USA?

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

You can have a butterfly greenhouse in the USA. But only with native US species. I believe the tropical species there need a license due to the possibility of the escaping and breeding. Luckily in the UK and Europe, if they were to escape then they wouldn't survive the winter so no licenses are needed here.

[@marlonsantana6266]

How the butterfly house is going , there new species and moth species?

[@UkAmphibians]

Brilliant video I’m wanting to do this but with british butterflies can you recommend where I can get them from please ?

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

The best places to order the british species are bugsandbutterflies.uk and ww.co.uk There are also usually some available on ebay in spring and summer

[@UkAmphibians]

@@TropicalButterfliesUK thanks I know Stuart but think he mainly keeps tropical butterflies don’t he ?

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

@@UkAmphibians He usually has some British natives available during the summer.

[@UkAmphibians]

@@TropicalButterfliesUK brilliant I’ll send him a message and Thankyou

[@marlenee7968]

How much was it to build the greenhouse ??? Like the whole total ??

[@luissamouco2518]

Amazing vídeo!!! I have one silly question is it possible to have butterflies all year round (specially during winter) in a greenhouse?

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

Yes, it is possible. But depending on where you are based it can be very expensive to heat a greenhouse. There is also the issue of making sure the plants have enough light to continue growing and flowering.

[@rifatkhondkar7121]

@@TropicalButterfliesUK don't butterflies hibernate in winter? Is it possible we let them hibernate by adding the necessary hibernation centres instead of regulating the temperature? And what about places that have very short winters? Like if it's only cold for a week at the most?

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

@@rifatkhondkar7121Tropical Butterflies don't hibernate. Only species that are naturally found in colder climates will hibernate.

[@rifatkhondkar7121]

@@TropicalButterfliesUK so that would mean they don't need temperature regulation, and even if they did, it'd be minimal

[@jacqui7530]

Can i ask you which butterfly will emerge from the caterpillar at 14:08 minute? Thank you a lot for this wonderful video!

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

The caterpilla is Papilio polytes, the common mormon

[@jacqui7530]

@@TropicalButterfliesUK thank you very much 😍

[@mikeaandewiel]

Do the White morpho breed on the peanut to?

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

The white Morphos need inga or other specific plants for laying, sadly i've not been able to get them to lay on peanut. They also don't fly too well in a smaller greenhouse compared to the blue Morphos

[@renatocoin1467]

Dove si possono acquistare uova e pupae

[@erncielafontant9689]

Paper 📃

[@marlonsantana6266]

There too the Panacea Prola in 43:38 , how did there are in butterfly house too?

[@mariazailani]

I think the farms where he bought the pupa confused it with the species he actually bought

[@thimoschreiber4275]

I tried Caligo, but they die very fast on me? I feed them with rotting banana, Oranges etc. Do they also need flowers?

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

They dont use flowers, only fruit. It will likely be the conditions wernt quite right for them such as being too hot or dry or not having enough space to fly.

[@thimoschreiber4275]

@@TropicalButterfliesUK well i am shure that they had enough space to fly and to cold/wet also unlikly. I measurd the Temperatur of the greenhous and it was 45 degrees Celsius. I guess thats to hot. How do you cool down the greenhouse? I tried ventilation with 4 roof windows and a fan that blows in the colder air from outside but best i got was 42 degrees and in the evening and night around 25

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

​@@thimoschreiber4275Yes, 45 celsius is far too hot for all tropical butterflies, they wont last long. It should be ideally 26-28c maximum, with 80% humidity. Anything over 32c will be a problem for both the butterflies and plants. You could try putting shading over the top of the greenhouse, installing misters or foggers, adding more plants, hosing it down a few times per day, removing panels to allow extra air flow.

[@elatu]

Hi, i'm a researcher starting to work with south american butterflies. I'd like to breed them to have easy access to them. Would I be able to feed them using only nectar? no flowers? I need to make the initial set up as simple as possible, also probably indoor.

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

Yes, its possible to use only nectar solution to feed the butterflies. If you are planning on keeping heliconius you might need to add some amino acid powder to the mix.

[@elatu]

@@TropicalButterfliesUK Thanks a lot for answering and for the tip. I could also provide them fruit. We are just finishing the equipment for what we want to do (if you are curious, just search in youtube for "eyeshine butterfly", there is a video by Benitos Explanations that explains it really well). We still are not completely sure which butterflies to use. Probably Ortilia ithra, or maybe Dione vanillae because they are so easy to find here. The ones I would really like to try are Doxocopa laurentia and Morpho epistrophus argentinus. Maybe after the other ones, and if we can breed them successfully.

[@jesoby]

What is the electricity bill like?

[@TropicalButterfliesUK]

If you're only keeping the butterflies in the summer then the costs will be minimal. The heater was only on the 30w fan setting for most of the summer while making this setup, which is around 13p per day. In the slightly cooler early and late summer months the heater will run for a 2-4 hours in 5 minute bursts over the course of the day which is around 75p-£1.11 per day. But it will depend on the size of the space, the amount of insulation, the heater settings and the outside tempertures, so if you have a smart meter it's a good way to keep an eye on it.

[@georgepalmerin4514]

sorry i ask before completion of tape/

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