He's still alive...

Okay, I'll just leave him in the garage until February.

I followed Pete's advice and left him in the garage all day and night. He'd barley moved when I came back to him, but I knew he was still alive, he's now back in the jar, warming up near the radiator, about to be served dinner, and hopefully will soon be fit to go back in the garage. :) EDIT: He's n...

But wait, what will he eat?

Hi Mark, As you know, Speckled Wood don't overwinter as adults and, I suspect, this chap won't have enough body fats stored to help it last the winter. The only choice would be to place it in a cool outhouse (shed, garage) and hope it somehow makes it through the winter, releasing it in April when ...

In October, I found the cocoon of a speckled wood butterfly, I put it inside a jar with some leaves, and expected to release it as a butterfly on the first day of spring, but I've kept my room too warm and it's come out of the cocoon, and now it's winter, and we have snow, and are due more. I don't ...