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Insect Lore Butterfly Growing Kit - With Voucher to Redeem Caterpillars Later

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Pop-up, reusable 11.5-inch tall mesh habitat perfect for butterfly viewing
Witness one of nature's most spectacular transformations up close
Includes feeding pipette and complete instructions
Caterpillars ship separately via included voucher (Additional $7.95 for processing)
Shipping: Live caterpillars are shipped to destinations within the Continental USA and Alaska. We cannot ship live caterpillars to Hawaii
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Original Butterfly Garden With Voucher Includes

Pop-up, reusable 11.5-inch tall mesh habitat perfect for butterfly viewing, feeding Pipette, complete Caterpillars to Butterflies Instruction Guide, a cup of 5 live caterpillars redeemed online using the voucher included in the box. Please note that an additional $7.95 shipping fee is required when redeeming your voucher.

Watch the Miracle of Metamorphosis Up Close

The Original Butterfly Garden with Voucher 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 weeks.

Watch Caterpillars Change Into Butterflies before Your Very Eyes

Watch the Miracle of Butterfly Metamorphosis with the Original Butterfly Garden with Voucher from Insect Lore! We’ve been shipping our special caterpillars to families and classrooms for almost 50 years.

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A family and classroom favorite.
Insect Lore has shipped over 50 million
Watch your caterpillars grow, harden into chrysalides and then transform into beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies.
Feed and enjoy them for a few days - then set them free.
3 of the 5 caterpillars are guaranteed to emerge as healthy adult butterflies.


See an Amazing Transformation 5 caterpillars will arrive in a clear plastic cup with all of the nutritious food they need to grow into beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies. 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.	Raise Your Very Own Butterflies The Insect Lore butterfly habitat is a reusable, cylindrical mesh container perfect for up close butterfly viewing! When not in use it folds flat for easy storage. 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. Everyone will want to keep a close eye on the habitat so they can witness the fascinating birth of their Painted Lady Butterflies. Once your butterflies have emerged from the chrysalides, place fresh flowers in the habitat for your butterflies to rest on. Use the feeding pipette included to drip sugar water, or nectar, on the flowers. Watch your butterflies eagerly sip the nectar with their long proboscises. Butterflies also love to feed from fresh slices of watermelon and oranges.	Set Your Butterflies Free Enjoy your butterflies for a few days, and then experience the excitement of letting them go to continue their amazing life cycle. Release your butterflies within a week of their emergence from the chrysalides when daytime temperatures are above 55 degrees. Simply take the butterfly habitat out to your yard, unzip the cover, and let your butterflies go. Butterflies will often land on little hands and faces before flying away. Watch for your butterfly friends, as they may decide to remain in your garden for a few days.

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Witness one of nature's most spectacular transformations up close with this reusable, collapsible habitat. Fine, transparent mesh lets you see butterfly metamorphosis up close. Product includes easy-to-use feeder and complete instructions for habitat. Butterfly larvae with food shipped directly to your home. The habitat collapses for storage when not in use. You can adopt and raise a handful of caterpillars, watch them transform into painted Lady butterflies, then lift the garden cover to release your beautiful specimens into the wild. This exciting habitat makes a fabulous introduction to the miracles of nature. The larvae and food available Round the year. Please note: this package does not include live caterpillars. Instead, it includes a voucher that must be redeemed on our website when you decide the time is right for you to receive your caterpillars. Caterpillars are sent separately. An additional fee of $7.95 is required when you redeem the voucher (to cover shipping and handling of your caterpillars). if you are ready to receive your live caterpillars immediately, We suggest you choose the live butterfly garden with 5 caterpillars instead of the original butterfly garden with voucher.

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Product Packaging:Standard Packaging

Product Dimensions

13 x 13 x 3 inches

Item Weight

9.6 ounces

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10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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B00000ISC5

Item model number

10416

Manufacturer recommended age

4 - 15 years

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#5 in Biology Science Kits
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LOVED doing this project with my 4 year old daughter

March 10, 2016

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LOVED doing this project with my 4 year old daughter. Not only did she learn a lot about the life cycle of butterflies, but so did I! We had 6 butterflies all grow and get set free into the world! I thought she would have a hard time letting them fly away but she wanted them to go explore the world and fly. The best part was when setting them free, they kept coming back and landing on her! She said they were thanking her for taking care of them ♡
Two of them refused to leave her open hand so we kept them a few extra days before trying again. This time they did fly off. The last one to leave came back several days later and flew around while she played outside. We knew it was the same one because of the mark on its wing. Great experience and so very easy to care for.

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Great kit, but watch out for hidden costs!

September 11, 2015

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This is a really good kit, but beware of the hidden costs! The price of the kit does NOT include caterpillars. If you buy the kit, they give you a code to purchase caterpillars for free, but you still get charged about $5 for shipping and handling, plus more if you want the caterpillars expedited with 2 day shipping, which they recommend so that your caterpillars don't die in transit. I chose not to pay more and chose regular shipping, and my caterpillars arrived within 3 days in excellent condition. If you want another batch of caterpillars you have to pay about $15 for the caterpillars plus shipping. So buyer beware!

But in spite of that, this is a GREAT little science kit. My 4 year old son was fascinated by the caterpillars that arrived. They come sealed in a little plastic tub with a layer of food on the bottom, so you don't have to feed them or tend to them at all, just make sure they are neither too hot nor cold, and watch them grow! They eat the food on the bottom and hang on the top and turn into chrysalises. About a week later they turn into butterflies, and then you can feed them fruit or sugar water, which is a lot of fun too.

We received 6 caterpillars and all 6 of them turned into butterflies. So beautiful and really great learning for the little ones (and us big ones too).

A note: Make sure you are going to be home for at least 3 weeks when you order the butterflies. If you go out of town you might miss the transformation, and also once they turn into butterflies you need to be home to feed them.

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Anthrorn

Kids loved it!

May 23, 2018

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I bought this for my 10 year old daughter who loves all things nature. It was amazing! The self contained cup cake with tiny caterpillars that grew without any need for care whatsoever in just a few days. It was amazing to watch! They made their cocoons as expected and hatched into beautiful butterflies! All 5 hatched perfectly! Directions are very easy and the only thing really required is to open the cup and put the lid with the cocoons into the habitat. Only warning make sure you order this understanding that they arrive alive and ready to start the process immediately. So do not order if you plan to be away on vacation or anything. Once they make cocoons you have to move them to the habitat. If they hatched in the cup they would die. Feeding the butterflies is easy and fun and you release them in a few days. My daughter loved it so much we bought one for her class! The 4th graders loved watching them grow and transform and leaned all about the lifecycle of a butterfly!!

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Cheaply made cage, extra $ required for the caterpillars, but success in the end.

April 24, 2017

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The butterfly cage is cheaply made, and had issues with collapsing each time we stood it up, so we didn't order the caterpillars yet. I fixed it by propping it up with dowels. The one redeeming aspect of the cage is that it is reusable. Oh, be prepared to spend an extra $7.95 for the caterpillars. I ordered the caterpillars, followed the instructions exactly by waiting at least 3 days after the last one turned into a chrysalis, trimmed off any extra silly threads and frass (poo), hung them ever so carefully in the holder provided and waited them out. Each time one emerged as a butterfly I removed the spent chrysalis to allowed proper wing development of the newly arrived butterfly. We had all five caterpillars make it to butterflies and to their freedom in the world.

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Emily

Great experience for kids

August 7, 2017

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If you buy this kit through the actual website, they'll charge you shipping so it makes more sense to buy it from Amazon if you have prime already. I would recommend buying the actual kit without the voucher to avoid paying the additional shipping to get the worms as well

. The kit was very informative and easy to follow where it even has many answered FAQ. I believe the time frame for the hatch was about four weeks so plan accordingly. With the five worms that I received, all five hatched into beautiful butterflies. It was amusing to see how fast the worms grew within just a few days they would keep doubling in size. Prior to the butterflies emerging from their cocoon, make sure that you cover the base of the net wth several pieces of paper because the red liquid that the butterflies drip could possibly leak through the napkin and stain the net. Unfortunately during our release, they didn't want to stick around and quickly flew away.

The kit worked great and was worth the experience. I had also purchased the ladybug kit and that was even easier to care for.

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Allykat

Fun Concept

March 29, 2017

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Apparently I didn't read the fine print, as I thought my kit would come with the caterpillars, when in actuality I ended up having to send away for them afterwards. Creepy crawly things are honestly not my forte, but my kids enjoyed it. I wish the instructions were more clear for us novices and that it was more kid-user-friendly. I still have my habitat, but I think I will be taking this year off from butterflies. On the plus side, all of our caterpillars turned into butterflies! We even had one that apparently wanted to be our pet--it refused to leave the habitat on several occasions before finally flying free.

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Original Butterfly Garden With Voucher Includes

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Watch Caterpillars Change Into Butterflies before Your Very Eyes

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Raise Your Very Own Butterflies

Set Your Butterflies Free

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