Has anyone ever kept exotic butterflies?

[reptillian]

Has anyone ever kept exotic butterflies because im looking for some so i can keep them in my greenhouse. If you have what do they eat and what typeas have you kept and where can you get them please help me.

NATURE BOY!

 

[thedreadedone]

http://www.wwb.co.uk/html/livestock_general.html
that link has some pupae for sale
you could just try looking using google
(or collect caterpillars in your garden )
butterflies do not eat, but they drink - usually nectar (although i believe there are some species that only drink sweat !)
you may be able to grow appropriate plants in your greenhouse or some butterflies will take artificial nectar solution (fructose i think?) - you need really good hygiene if you feed nectar solution, and fungi and bacteria grow very quickly in this solution