Insect Lore Cup of Caterpillars Deluxe | 5 Live Baby Caterpillars | Stickers & Chrysalis Holding Log Included | Painted Lady Butterflies | Refill for Butterfly Garden

My daughter’s caterpillars and ladybugs died in her classroom this year so I ordered some for home. My youngest (7) and my granddaughters (4&2) as well and Mimi and great Memaw absolutely loved watching our caterpillars go through the stages. Even after release the butterflies came around for a couple of days.

I made 2 orders 1 for my classroom children and the other for my son’s classroom. I received 10 caterpillars and only 9 made it into butterflies in my classroom. My classroom enjoyed it and this was fun and easy. I would order again

One of my caterpillars was much smaller than the others. When the others started entering the chrysalis stage the small one started eating the others. I didn't realize this could happen. I have 2 left in a chrysalis that I hope will survive and emerge butterflies, but I am not 100% sure they will make it since I caught the cannibalistic caterpillar munching on them too. Additionally, mold is growing on the top of the cup from where the one (dead) partial chrysalis was hanging.

We received our shipment earlier than expected, all 10 caterpillars were alive and are very healthy, and the kit came with everything we need to raise these little guys. I'm very happy with this purchase.

Perfect, educational, and exciting for my littles. They loved awaiting the butterflies and watching them transform! We only had 1 little guy that didn't make it.

Have bought for several years running now - the "worst" showing we had was 7/10 of the caterpillars making it to butterflies. This year all ten made it. The top where they make their chrysalis does NOT do a good job of hanging on to them....the most common problem is a chrysalis will fall. If you see this and use a pair of tweezers to quickly pluck the chrysalis up out of the crap at the bottom and reattach it to the lid with his buddies, all will be well. Have had to do this many times.

I bought these after seeing a kindergarten class at the school I work at do this. My 4 year old loves the book The Hungry Caterpillar so I thought this would be great. I bought the kit that was recommended to me by the teacher. We actually had one caterpillar die before it could grow. Then, two of the caterpillars built their chrysalises in the bottom of the cup, in the “dirt”. I scooped them out the way the paper mentioned very carefully (they had instructions for if they fell from the top of the cup). I’m not sure what I did wrong with caring for them, but only 2 butterflies made it fully. One that made a chrysalis in the “dirt” was stuck in its cocoon and it’s wings weren’t fully developed and very deformed. I don’t think it’s going to make it. The other that was formed on the bottom still hasn’t broken through. If it does it may also have some deformed wings. So, we have 2 out of 5 that made it healthy. Not sure what I did wrong.Anyway, I think this was a great idea. It worked well for the class I sat in just didn’t work well for me. We did enjoy watching the caterpillars grow and build their cocoons. My 4 year old is just aas happy with 3 butterflies as he would be with all 5. I just hate they didn’t all make it.

These arrived just as they appear in the images, with all of the parts listed. All 10 caterpillars were alive, changed into their chrysalis within 2 days of each other, and emerged as butterflies within two days of each other, too. It was about 2 weeks exactly from the time that the caterpillars arrived to the time they emerged, to give you a sense of the timeline. (They went into chrysalis at about 7 days after their arrival.)It was neat to watch the whole process with the students, and they especially liked releasing them. I would purchase these again!If I were to suggest one thing to the company, it might be making a larger surface area for the lid. In each container, there wasn’t much space for the caterpillars to hang for their chrysalis, and one chrysalis did get knocked down into the substrate by another when it was wiggling it’s old skin off. I had to pick it up and tie it with a string to the mesh on the side of the enclosure, and it did survive.