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Just put them outside. Don't touch them with your hands as that could rub the coating off their wings. Best to use a wide-mouth glass jar and coax them in with a stiff sheet of paper, which you can then use to cover the jar.
In regards to your spider webs and the moths stuck in them.
If the moth is still there and not wrapped up, then there is no spider tending to that web.
Also a spider is not going to 'eat' the moth, spiders suck the fluids out of their meals and leave a 'shell' of the creature caught.
When I first read about your spider webs, I wondered if the webs were vacant. Spiders do not usually keep a web around, or remain at a web for a long time. Especially if there is not much food. A spider will abandon a web and move on to better 'hunting grounds'.
If you do not see a spider at the web, off in the corner or on the edge, then the web is 'useless' and anything caught in it is wasted so to speak.
If the web is in a good spot, then a spider will tend to the web, fixing it, or consume it and rebuild in the same spot. But again, if there is no spider, then it's a useless web. Clean it up for it will only collect dust, lose its 'sticky' and slowly fall apart- not to mention, become an eyesore.
When something is caught in a web, the victim will try to escape causing the web to shake. This prompts the spider to come and tend to it's prey. It will either wrap it up, release it, or have a picnic right then and there. Either way, once a spider is done with it's meal, it cleans up. The 'leftovers' are removed from the web. A spider wants its web to be non-detectable as possible and keeping anything stuck in the web is not a benefit to the spider.
How long have the webs been up? Do you see the spiders?
The window is open and Harrier won't touch the moth anymore per the above admonishment.
If the moth goes out after dark, then all is well.
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