Last summer I wanted to make a butterfly house and keep butterflies. One of my friends said I could buy the butterflies off the internet but you're really buying the monarch catterpillers and raising them to butterflies. I just wanted butterflies. We have a butterfly bush in own yard, wich is soppose to be one of the ownly known things that can actaully attract butterflies so I would spent all day trying to get them but they were just too darn fast and I couldn't catch them
even with a butterfly net. You can make the house out of door screams and wood. In the late summer you just let them free. If you really get into it you can build a little heated green house to keep them in during the winter. I wouldn't go that far though, but it would be cool for us because we live on a lake and inbetwwn the lake and the house is a large amountof wooded area. If we put it over there and ran a water pile line, a power supply from the house, and and bought heaters, put shalves with racks or plants and flowers by the windows and butterflies and a hot tub that would be great. It probably wouldn't work though, but if it would that would be the coolest thing. You could sit out there by the lake in the summer or winter and relax in the hot tube and watch the butterflies. I don't think the stream would be good for butterflies. Anyway...............