What is the correct way to handle an escaped butterfly?

[taylorse]

Although I spoke with staff and they told me that this butterfly could not have escaped from the butterfly house, because they are very careful…I am pretty sure it escaped from the butterfly house. (They did confirm that they have this species in the butterfly house.)

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231083373

What is the correct way to treat this observation? If it was in the butterfly house, it obviously would be captive. It was definitely not captive. But the article says that an escaped or released pet counts as wild (but should be annotated not established, which I can’t do, because that isn’t one of the annotations available for butterflies). Does a butterfly from a butterfly house count as a pet?

https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000169932-what-does-captive-cultivated-mean-

[tcriley]

I would think that this would count as an escaped organism and shouldn’t be marked as captive/cultivated, even if it isn’t a pet. It escaped on its own and is living on its own without assistance of humans.

[taylorse]

That works for me. I was looking for some way to indicate that it was an escapee, but you appear to have added an observation field for that, so, thanks!