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

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

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

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.

Perfectly perfect! Repeat customer for a reason! Great value and awesome insects- my classes can’t wait to see their winged friends in a few weeks!❤️🦋

6 out of 10 caterpillars did not survive and it's been a week and have not received confirmation of replacement from the company via email and could not get a hold of customer service via phone.

2/5 caterpillars hatched from their cocoon a little disappointed the instructions were clear easy to do other than when you take the lid off because some fall. Very pretty caterpillars and butterflies. They’re pretty fragile if more had lived it probably would’ve been worth the price. It comes with a cup of 5 caterpillars and food.

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.