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.
Twice the amount of caterpillars and a taller habitat than our regular Gift Set!
Item code:11-700
Please note when selecting option "Send Kit with Live" this is the date the complete kit is dispatched, not the delivery date.
Twice the amount of caterpillars and a taller habitat than our regular Gift Set
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
6-10 caterpillars (live butterfly cultures) will arrive within 2 clear plastic cups with all of the nutritious food they need. Place the cups in a safe place away from direct sunlight. The caterpillars will remain in the cups 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.
GIANT Butterfly Garden Gift Set with 2 Live Cups of Caterpillars includes:
- Pop-up, reusable 45cm tall super clear mesh habitat
- 6-10 LIVE caterpillars with food (2 cups of caterpillars)
- Flower-shaped butterfly feeder
- Butterfly life cycle stages
- 3D butterfly stickers
- Butterfly wind up
- Temporary bug tattoos
- STEM butterfly diary
- Feeding pipette
- Instruction guide
- x2 Chrys-A-Lid™ Holding Logs
- 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.
Our Chrys-A-Lid™ Holding Logs are a fun way to support your chrysalis while you wait for your butterflies to emerge. The colourful flower-shaped butterfly feeder is ideal to quench your newly emerged butterflies thirst, just soak the sponge with nectar and top up daily, when the butterflies have been released simply rinse the sponge and store for next time!
Our anatomically correct, hand-painted Butterfly Life Cycle figures make learning about the metamorphosis fun!
Beautiful 3D Butterfly Stickers are also included. These 2-layer stickers let you add glittery butterfly fun to almost any crafty project. They're great for decorating notebooks, greeting cards or scrapbooks.
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. Also included are our fun buggy Temporary Tattoos!
(Please Note: Butterfly Wind-Up and 3D Butterfly Stickers - colours and styles may vary)
4+
Price: €44.78 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?
