What are the differences between each live butterfly kit?Updated 8 months ago
Insect Lore has several live butterfly kits you can choose from for yourself and your family's butterfly-raising experience. But which kit is right for you? Here is a breakdown of each live kit we carry and what makes each of them unique.
Butterfly Garden with Live Cup of Caterpillars
Our original butterfly raising kit has been beloved by millions of children for over 50 years. With our classic pop up habitat, it's great for learners of all ages and is ideal for families.
This Kit Includes:
- Cup of 3-5 LIVE caterpillars with food or voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)
- Pop-up, reusable 30cm tall mesh habitat
- Chrysalis Station (arrives with caterpillars)
- Sugar packet to make butterfly nectar (arrives with caterpillars)
- Feeding pipette
- Complete instruction guide
Giant Butterfly Garden with Live Cup of Caterpillars
Enjoy this giant-sized version of our ever-so-popular Live Butterfly Garden. We also include our Painted Lady Butterfly Life Cycle Stages!
This Kit Includes:
- 6-10 LIVE caterpillars with food (2 cups of caterpillars) or voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)
- Pop-up, reusable 45cm tall mesh habitat
- Bonus Butterfly Life Cycle Stages
- 2 Chrysalis Stations (arrives with caterpillars)
- 2 Sugar packets to make butterfly nectar (arrives with caterpillars)
- Feeding Pipette
- Complete instruction guide
Butterfly Garden Home School Edition
The Home School Edition adds even more STEM/STEAM enrichment to the butterfly raising experience you know and love. The newly designed habitat has an Ultra-Clear™ front-facing viewing panel so you can get up close and personal with your butterflies, and a tuck-away learning panel that highlights the stages of metamorphosis and early-learning butterfly facts. Kids will also love the added details on the base of the habitat. This kit is the perfect way to introduce children to biology.
This Kit Includes:
- Cup of 3-5 LIVE caterpillars with food or voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)
- Special habitat with Ultra-Clear™ front-facing viewing panel and tuck-away learning panel which highlights the stages of metamorphosis. Includes early learning biology facts
- 12 page STEM Diary for Budding Entomologists, full of learning and fun!
- Flower shaped butterfly feeder
- Chrysalis Holding Log
- Sugar packet to make butterfly nectar (arrives with caterpillars)
- Feeding pipette
- Complete instruction guide
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Butterfly Growing Kit ™
Insect Lore has teamed up with the World of Eric Carle™ for a very special edition of our bestselling Butterfly Garden.
This Kit Includes:
- Cup of 3-5 LIVE caterpillars with food or voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar™ pop-up reusable habitat, 30cm tall
- A SPECIAL SURPRISE Very Hungry Caterpillar™ Butterfly Feeder! (one of the following: plum, orange, strawberry, apple, pear, sausage, pickle, cake, cherry pie, or ice cream cone. Chosen at random)
- Chrysalis Holding Log
- Sugar Packet to make butterfly nectar
- Feeding Pipette
- Caterpillar quick guide (you can also download the full instructions here)
A bigger version of the Butterfly Garden!
This Kit Includes:
- 6-10 LIVE caterpillars with food (2 cups of caterpillars) or voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)
- Pop-up, reusable 60cm tall mesh habitat
- 2 Chrysalis Stations (arrives with caterpillars)
- 2 Sugar packets to make butterfly nectar (arrives with caterpillars)
- Feeding Pipette
- Complete instruction guide
Original Butterfly Garden School Kit with 33 Live Caterpillars
Our original Butterfly Garden School Kit comes with 33 live caterpillars. Giving students the ULTIMATE STEM experience! With this popular kit, each student can watch the day-to-day development and transformation of his or her very own caterpillar!
This Kit Includes:
- 33 LIVE caterpillars or voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)
- Classroom-sized pop-up reusable 60cm tall mesh habitat
- STEM Butterfly Journal
- 33 vials and lids
- Caterpillar food
- Insect Lore spoon
- Insect Lore food levelling tool
- Transfer brush
- 66 sticking pads
- Sugar packet to make butterfly nectar (arrives with caterpillars)
- Feeding pipette
- Full instruction guide
The Easy 20 School Kit project promotes active, hands-on student collaboration and with 20 caterpillars, it's perfect for classrooms. No prep required! The project is ready out of the box, so there’s no need to transfer food and caterpillars, so you can save time with easy set up. The enormous and airy 60cm tall Butterfly Pavilion habitat is the perfect temporary home for your classroom butterflies.
This Kit Includes:
- Classroom-sized pop-up reusable 60cm tall mesh habitat
- 4 Cups of 3-5 caterpillars with their food
- STEM Butterfly Observation Journal
- 4 Chrysalis Holding Logs
- 4 Sugar packets to make butterfly nectar
- Feeding pipette
- Complete instruction guide
There you have it! Each kit is unique and comes with different features that you and your family or classroom can explore.