Why release butterflies?
Aside from their beauty, the butterflies you release will enter the natural kingdom in the area and , locating suitable habitat, reproduce, increasing the numbers of the butterflies locally. Even though the butterflies have been raised in protected conditions, they are not domesticated. They are as wild as their counterparts that exist in the area. Butterflies are also important pollinators. Most consider the little worker bees common around as the more efficient pollinators, and they are very efficient, but the honey bees we are familiar with are not native to North America. They were imported from Europe partly for honey and partly for their usefulness as pollinators during colonial times, but beekeeping as we know it today did not develop until the mid nineteenth century. We do have native bees, there are in fact approximately 3,500 species of them, but they are not nearly as numerous as the imported bees, many being solitary. If you plant a butterfly garden, it would be valuable to
