The act of framing butterflies is not cruel, as long as the creature is deceased before this process. Killing a butterfly purely to frame it is unnecessary and wrong as their average lifespan is only two weeks.

Both dragonflies and damselflies belong to the Odonata, which is a subgroup of insects, which in turn is a group of uniramian arthropods.

Butterflies can be immobilized or killed while in the aerial net. Grab and squeeze the specimen by the thorax between the thumb and forefinger with the wings folded over the back. The butterfly will be stunned or killed, depending on force of squeezing and time.

In recent years many people have condemned the collecting of butterflies as cruel because it supposedly inflicts pain on innocent creatures. The real cruelty is to deny children the chance to get deeply into nature.

Butterfly wings are intricately designed and delicate. Butterflies do not feel pain. Although butterflies know when they are touched, their nervous system does not have pain receptors that registers pain so this procedure did not cause the butterfly stress or pain.

Butterflies indicate “emotional arousal,” positive or negative, and can trigger a stress response, whether the brain perceives a physical threat to safety or anxious excitement on a first date. When that happens, the hypothalamus in the brain produces a hormone called corticotropin-releasing factor, or CRF.

Butterflies feel no pain but if you think it can’t survive, a gentle way to send it on the ”Butterfly Heaven” is to place it in a small sandwich bag in your freezer.

Feeling panic and lashing out—being an angry butterfly—is a perfectly normal stage of transformation. But it must be temporary. You must surrender to the change, not resist it. Your butterfly can’t stay pissed off forever.

Yes, butterflies and all other insects have both a brain and a heart. The center of a butterfly’s nervous system is the subesophageal ganglion and is located in the insect’s thorax, not its head.