Our Caterpillar Season has come to an end for 2024, but will resume again in March 2025.
Pre-order now for Caterpillar dispatches from March-September 2025.
Exciting butterfly-themed bonus items make this butterfly-raising kit the perfect gift!
Item code:11-300
Please note when selecting option "Send Kit with Live" this is the date the complete kit is dispatched, not the delivery date.
Exciting butterfly-themed bonus items make this butterfly-raising kit the perfect gift!
This fun and educational kit gives children, students and families an unforgettable opportunity to watch caterpillars change into chrysalides and then emerge as beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies. Raise and feed your very own butterflies and then release them into the wild! The entire transformation from caterpillar to adult butterfly takes about three to five weeks.
See an Amazing Transformation
3-5 caterpillars (a live butterfly culture) will arrive in a clear plastic cup with all of the nutritious food they need. Place the cup in a safe place away from direct sunlight. The caterpillars will remain in the cup and will eat, spin silk and grow to TEN times their original size! After seven to ten days they will hang upside down and harden into chrysalides (chrysalides are also known as pupae).
Raise Your Very Own Butterflies
Once the chrysalides have hardened, gently move them to the pop-up butterfly habitat. It will take about seven to ten more days for them to complete the transformation to adult butterflies.
The Butterfly Garden Habitat is a reusable, cylindrical mesh container perfect for up-close butterfly viewing! When not in use it folds flat for easy storage. Then when you wish to raise more butterflies, just order a refill Cup of Caterpillars here.
Butterfly Garden Gift Set With Live Cup of Caterpillars includes:
- Pop-up, reusable 30cm tall super clear mesh habitat
- Cup of 3-5 LIVE caterpillars with food
- Flower-shaped butterfly feeder
- 3D Butterfly Stickers
- Butterfly Wind Up
- Temporary Bug Tattoos
- STEM My Butterfly Diary Ages 4-6 (additional copies available here)
- Feeding pipette
- Complete instruction guide
- Chrys-A-Lid™ Holding Log
- Insect Lore sugar packet to make your very own butterfly nectar
The STEM butterfly diary is a complementary tool designed to enhance your child's learning with a range of fun activities to complete.
3D Butterfly Stickers are beautiful 2-layer stickers that let you add glittery butterfly fun to almost any crafty project. They're great for decorating notebooks, greeting cards or scrapbooks.
The colourful flower-shaped feeder is ideal to quench your newly emerged butterflies thirst, just soak the sponge with nectar.
There's more - see how high your wind-up butterfly can fly! This rubber band-powered flying toy will keep kids busy for hours. It's easy to wind and release. Bug tattoos are a temporary fun way to wear your insects!
(Please Note: Butterfly Wind-Up and 3D Butterfly Stickers - colours and styles may vary)
Ages 4+
Price: £28.50 incl VAT (£23.75 ex VAT)
If you choose to upgrade to a DHL delivery option (UK addresses only) at checkout for an order that contains a Live kit, please be aware that your order will still be dispatched on your chosen send-out date. This service does not include weekend deliveries.
Need help with your Caterpillar to Butterfly Process? - Watch these informative videos
Setting up your Chrysalis Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Prw99oojY0
Caring for your Chrysalis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcwOzy72vcM
Feeding your Butterflies:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wup0WdPnDOc
Releasing your Butterflies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ImYSNCqBs
