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Insect Lore Butterfly Growing Kit Toy - Includes Voucher Coupon for 5 Live Caterpillars to Butterflies

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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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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

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Product Dimensions

13 x 13 x 3 inches

Item Weight

9.9 ounces

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B00000ISC5

Item model number

10416

Manufacturer recommended age

4 - 15 years

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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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T and S

Favorite birthday present!

June 5, 2015

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This was my daughter's favorite birthday present! It wasn't exactly thrilling at first because it is just a mesh bag with nothing to look at until the caterpillars arrive. I did order the caterpillars a couple of days before her birthday and then the caterpillars arrived about a week from the date of my order. There were five caterpillars in the cup when we received it. Two of the five were definitely smaller than the others but they all started moving around the cup. Eventually the 2 smaller caterpillars did die but the other three thrived. It was about 10 days from getting the cup in the mail that each caterpillar formed chrysalides. We waited about 3 days after they formed to move them to the mesh habitat. Then 8 days later each butterfly emerged. We fed them orange slices, which they didn't seem to pay attention to. Then when we put some small purple wild flowers sprinkled with sugar water in the habitat. The butterflies went crazy for these, fluttering wildly around. It really excited the kids to watch the butterflies "drinking" from the flowers. After having them a week, we decided it was finally warm enough to let them go. We took the butterflies outside and let them rest on each child's finger before setting them free. What an amazing sight! This kit provided an amazing way to bring a small part of nature inside to be observed close. We can't wait to try this again.

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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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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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Paco

So disappointing

April 15, 2018

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So disappointing. The box only comes with a net “home” for the butterflies and a small, flimsy, plastic pipette to feed the butterflies. It’s not worth the money paid for this kit. The instructions illustrate a “log” where you’re supposed to place the top of the jar once the pupa attach to it. The box doesn’t include that log or the feeding station for the butterflies. For $20 it should include both of those things. You have to get creative and make those two things if you dont want to pay more money to buy them separately. You also have to pay $8 to have your caterpillar shipped. So this kit ends up being a total of $28 and the kit is not even worth $10. If it wasn’t because my son is excited about seeing the life cycle of a butterfly, I would return this. It’s not worth the money and it’s deceiving.

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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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Aubrey

DOESN'T CONTAIN BUTTERFLIES!

We can't wait to have some butterflies - pretty confusing as this doesn't contain any butterflies to hatch!!!

Published 4 hours ago

Bill

Deceptive advertising...

My mistake for not reading carefully enough... My kids were looking at the pictures for this product for the days leading up to the delivery.Read more

Published 1 day ago

emt

Disappointed

This literally only includes the net and small pipette. For $20?? It talks about a plastic log in the directions, but that is no where to be found. A bit disappointed.

Published 2 days ago

Momtotenkids

Perfect for my granddaughter

Perfect for my granddaughter. She enjoyed watching the caterpillars and was so excited when the butterflies emerged. We are getting ready to order more caterpillars.

Nicholas Raymond Kotter

Wonderful learning and fun activity but have to pay for caterpillars even with free voucher

Great gift. I have purchased this for my own kids as well as two of my nieces. My oldest niece still sees generations of these butterflies in their yard 10 years later.Read more

Published 4 days ago

Real Name

Read the annoying fine print

It’s not a “voucher” if you have to pay 7.95. I regret buying this as a gift.

So, I miss read it. There are no ...

So, I miss read it. There are no caterpillars with this. But, it is also NOT a kit. It is the cage and a green thing with no instructions on what it is.

Published 12 days ago

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Original Butterfly Garden With Voucher Includes

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