Our Caterpillar Season has come to an end for 2024, but will resume again in March 2025.
Our Live Butterfly Kits with Caterpillar Vouchers are still available to buy Year-round!
Vouchers are redeemable for Caterpillar dispatches from March-September 2025.
Gift Giving made simple!
The Original Butterfly Garden!
Item code: 101c (Live Kit) or 101 (Voucher Kit)
Please note when selecting option "Send Kit with Live" this is the date the complete kit is dispatched, not the delivery date.
If you don't know the date you would like your caterpillars sent (such as if giving as a gift) and would prefer a Caterpillar Voucher to redeem at a later date, please select "Send Kit with Voucher"
Give every child the Gift of Metamorphosis with the Live Butterfly Garden!
Choose to receive the kit with either a voucher, where you or the recipient have the flexibility to start raising butterflies when ready, or with LIVE caterpillars immediately (by selecting a send out date). Caterpillars are available from March to mid-September only.
Watch the Miracle of Metamorphosis Up Close
This 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.
The Live Butterfly Garden Includes:
- Pop-up, reusable 30cm tall super clear mesh habitat
- Cup of 3-5 LIVE caterpillars with food or voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)
- Feeding Pipette
- Complete instruction guide
- Chrysalis station
- Insect Lore sugar packet to make your very own butterfly nectar (arrives with the caterpillars)
Ages 4+
Price: €23.96 ex VAT
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