Outdoor butterfly enclosure

Here are the best butterfly cages you can buy or build to help safely raise monarch caterpillars in your own backyard.

This enclosure is designed as a safe area for caterpillar feeding/transformation. Butterfly enclosure 12 - 2”x2” x 8’ NOT treated 3 - 2”x4” x 8’ treated, for the base 1 - 2’x4’ sheet 1/2” plywood to cover the base 48” x 25’ roll of Screen 2 - 2 1/2” Hinges 1 1/4” Screws for the plywood 2” screws to fasten the sides to the front and back Used a 2” scrap of 2x2 for the Latch I used a kreg jig to build the base and all the framing.

DIY butterfly habitat

Today I collected scraps in and around my work shop and built Meg a butterfly caterpillar cage for her second grade class. It is handy havin...

If you love butterflies and want to help preserve them with your own backyard butterfly oasis, check out this Monarch Migration Station manufactured by Frame it All!

I need a smaller version of this!

Butterfly rearing cages for raising caterpillars.

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This guide will go over how to raise a monarch butterfly caterpillar which will eventually form a chrysalis and emerge as a beautiful monarch butterfly. As

Surround yourself in serenity by visiting Airlie’s 2,700-square foot native butterfly house. Butterflies, all native to North Carolina, can be found flying inside this open-air structure. Open seasonally July - September, included in garden admission.

It would be so cool to have my own butterfly enclosure!

Cages for raising butterflies outside? Give your caterpillars and chrysalides an extra layer of protection outdoors with aluminum screening. More info and other outdoor cage options...

I’ve been raising butterflies for 5 years ever since I was 15 years old. I wrote my first book about butterflies after gathering resear...