You know @ewkaw your so right, if everyone did the same there would be so many more. there is no harm in releasing them, and they only live for a few days/weeks before its the end for the lives anyway.

The butterfly house is a work in progress, I have the tunnel, I just cant afford the plastic to go over it yet, I have been saving for ages but then a bill came a long and I had to use it to pay for that.

Once I have the money and I can put a plastic cover over the top it will be ready, I am going to offer to collect all caterpillars that are classed as a pest from people, then at least it gives these creatures a chance in life.

I have a passion for butterflies and I think that if we don't do something to save them now we will be in a worse place in the future.

Someone predicted in a news article that if all the pollinators were to die, it would be an £18 billion pound industry to pay people to do it instead of the insects that do it for free. the maths to me makes my brain hurt, but still, people decided to kill these little things because to us they are classed as a pest.