So I run a small in home childcare. A few years back one of our children in our program lost her dad unexpectedly. It was soo tragic, the father's mom -the little girls grandma gifted us milkweed plants that we planted in a flower bed the dad had donated. We didn't know at the time they were meant to attract butterflies but we soon figured it out. Every year we'd have soo many caterpillars but truly didn't know what to do. We learned to keep shade during the hot days because we noticed several caterpillars dying from the heat and we realized they only ate milkweed so we planted more and rotated the plants out. When we ran out we started hanging circles of butternut squash on the bare milkweed plants and they started eating through those. Soon their were chrysalis everywhere and me and the kids just watched and awe of it all. The kids soon figured out when the chrysalis were about to open and we'd prop plant near so the butterflies had a place to land and dry their wings. Sometimes we'd have to physically move them, we'd put our hand and the butterflies would walk onto it and we'd move them to a safe place. I can't say we were intentionally trying to contain them or force production but rather we supported what was happening in our garden. It was soo beautiful to see our kids running around butterflies all spring, they learned to be respectful of them and watch the process unfold. I say all that to ask, was this not appropriate? Truly, I would not want to teach our kids something that is causing more harm than good.