Insect Lore Cup of Caterpillars Basic – 5 Live Painted Lady Caterpillars with Food – Refill Kit for Butterfly Garden Habitat – STEM Science Activity for Kids & Classrooms

I've been ordering these for years and our kids love them! The caterpillars always grow and turn into butterflies. I like that the refill cups come with every thing the baby caterpillars need. (We already have the butterfly habitat from Insect Lore.) They each come with 5 caterpillars and that's plenty. We live in a warmer climate and our caterpillars tend to grow quickly. I'd say within 2 weeks they go from caterpillars to butterflies. Watching them grow bigger each day is so fun. This is a great gift for kids of all ages. Just make sure they have the other necessary accessories before you send them a cup of caterpillars!

This was perfect for our PreK classroom! The children loved watching the caterpillars grow into butterflies.

I will never buy a cup of caterpillars through Amazon again. We have done this every year with my kids and have always ordered from the Insect Lore website, but this time I used Amazon because we wanted the cup quicker to show some friends who were staying with us. This was a big mistake. Every other year all 5 caterpillars have become butterflies and it has been such a fun experience for out kids! This year however when we got the cup, one caterpillar was already dead on arrival. A couple days later another caterpillar that was way smaller then the others on arrival also died. Still 3 were alive and eventually started making their chrysalis. One died before it could form it's chrysalis and fell to the bottom becoming a big pile of goo. 2 of the caterpillars have formed chrysalis and we have moved them to our big net. One of the them looks normal, and one of them is black, so I don't have much hope we will have more then 1 butterfly, and that's even debatable since all of them have died. The cup smells foul now that we have taken the lid off to put in the larger net, so I am wondering if the food was diseased or something. We do this every year and did everything according to the instructions, the only thing different this year was ordering through Amazon. I guess correlation doesn't always mean causation but in this case it's making me only ever want to buy through the Insect Lore website. I'll have to look and see if we still get the guarantee buying through Amazon.

We love this experience! 2nd year and all our 5 caterpillars 🐛 turned into pretty butterflies 🦋!

My grandson and I "hatched" butterflies last Spring with these. One was doa, and another died shortly after arrival. However, the rest made it to adulthood, and were exciting to release into my garden.

This was super fun for my pre-k class. 8 out of 10 of them turned into butterflies. I would recommend getting the lid holder log too. I did not and the butterflies emerged inside the little cups. It was cramped.

We have had good success with butterflies and caterpillars in the past with another brand but they were not available yet. We were excited to try out this brand to see what they offered. At first glance everything appeared ok. However there were supposed to be 5 caterpillars but there were only 3. The size of the cup was standard but the caterpillars even after growing to their full size appeared smaller than average. Overall the quality seemed to be lacking in the process and it was not good value for money as not all the caterpillars even arrived. After the 3 had grown they went into their chrysalis but only 2 emerged and were very small. We did release them but it was not quite the experience we have had in the past with another brand.

The caterpillars did great and all turned into live butterflies! I could not remove the paper from the lid with the chrysalises. There was no way to peel it off. I had to keep them attached to the lid.