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

The Lifecycle of a Butterfly is always a favorite Unit of study in our PreK classroom. Watching the caterpillars change and the butterfly release is always a hit!

Fun classroom project on butterfly lifecycles! I look forward to this project every spring! The kiddos love watching the caterpillars go through its lifecycle and emerge as a beautiful butterflies!

Not a great cup of caterpillars. I usually order them from amazon by another brand and all five caterpillars become butterflies. Usually the container has a piece of cloth on the top that the caterpillars can latch on to, the cloth is removeable and easily transferred into the butterfly habitat. With this container there is no cloth, just a sticker on the lid of the container making it difficult for the caterpillars to latch in order to form their chrysalis. 3 of them fell, and I couldn't remove the sticker from the container to get the other two off the cap. I hope that all of the caterpillars make it.

They grow up so fast! Tiny little caterpillars to butterflies - wiggling chrysalids and all! We had fun watching them emerge and eat nectar from different fruits. Made sure to time the release with nice enough weather so they could fly off into the world. It would have been good to have printed instructions in the box rather than going online.

Ultimately this worked well. The kids loved watching them grow. Four out five caterpillars made it all the way to butterfly stage. I had bought one previously and it came with a little stand to put the lid on once they cocoon. This one did not, so I had to get creative.. but the lid fell once and it caused distress. But I do love doing this with my kids. It’s a great Easter gift.

This is a must buy for kiddos! We do some every summer and my little girl loves it so much!

This item came with five caterpillars they have all cocooned the educational value is awesome and it is fun for my daughter good quality for the money but I hate to say it my daughter was so discouraged when one of them came out of their little cocoon deformed see we were wanting to let them all go not have to keep one but no matter the difference she said she'll take care of it as long as it lives sad story the other butterflies are attacking it another sad thing is you might want to move them two days after they all have gone up to the top to make their little cocoons because one of them decided it wanted to hatch 3 days after when I was trying to wait the 3 days to put them on the top but like I said one hatched the day we were supposed to move them all into the habitat we woke up that morning was getting everything ready to move them over and one was a butterfly in the little kit

My nieces love these. I usually get one of them some of these every year. I always look for the Insect Lore caterpillars because they always arrive in great condition. For the first 12 hours or so, the caterpillars seem sluggish. (I would be sluggish, too, if I had just been shipped over the road for hours to days.) Then they start to rouse themselves and get busy. We love these. The process is wonderful to behold. I've also gotten these as a gift for a housebound elderly person in the family, and it was really a blessing to see how much joy it brought for that person to be able to watch this process right next to their chair all that time.