The Harris Family

All five butterflies hatched and we were feeding them sugar water when Mr sprinkles decided to play with the flittering little buggies.

He got his claw stuck in the net and when Ellie rushed over to get him away the tent came crashing down and one of the butterflies was crushed under the sugar water container. One of the butterflies was successfully mauled by the Sprinkle and the other three got a little sticky and a ripped wing.

 

Oh gosh Ellie was devastated. Genuinely aching over her little friends tragedy. She was inconsolable for quite some time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The three remaining butterflies I thought might have a chance. We couldn’t trust them in the house anymore because no matter what room we moved them to the cat was hunting them down. So we went outside and let them free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All three tried so hard to fly away. I think they were just too damaged. They died after a couple of minutes of jumping around.

One is left. She’s a feisty little critter. And although her wing is pretty messed up she was determined to fly away. But she couldn’t get anywhere with her bad wing so we put her back in her tent.

 

Hopefully she likes sugar water and oranges. We’ll do our best to keep Mr Sprinkles at bay.

 

 

Ellie says her name is Olivia and she will protect her.