Insect Lore Two Cups of Caterpillars Deluxe - 10 Live Baby Caterpillars with Stickers - Raise and Relase Painted Lady Butterflies

This is a great project. So far I purchased this a dozen times for my 4 yoa daughter. I now purchase it for her class. Its a great value, and experience to take care of living amd watch them grow. Easy to care for The kids loves it

Have bought for several years running now - the "worst" showing we had was 7/10 of the caterpillars making it to butterflies. This year all ten made it. The top where they make their chrysalis does NOT do a good job of hanging on to them....the most common problem is a chrysalis will fall. If you see this and use a pair of tweezers to quickly pluck the chrysalis up out of the crap at the bottom and reattach it to the lid with his buddies, all will be well. Have had to do this many times.

I made 2 orders 1 for my classroom children and the other for my son’s classroom. I received 10 caterpillars and only 9 made it into butterflies in my classroom. My classroom enjoyed it and this was fun and easy. I would order again

I'm very disappointed with Insect Lore this year. Both cups of caterpillars had caterpillars of extremely varying ages. 2 caterpillars were so small, they were buried among the waste of the older caterpillars and died. The rest of the butterflies all hatched so far apart, I had some flying around like crazy and ready to be fed, while others were just hatching and needed to dry their wings. Several ended up getting injured because of the others flying around like crazy and knocking them around before their wings could properly dry. I won't be buying these again anytime soon. I've done these caterpillars with my daughter for many years and have never had this problem. A company of this calliber and price point should have this down to a science and deliver caterpillars all on the same development timeline. This year's experience was horrible!!

We received our shipment earlier than expected, all 10 caterpillars were alive and are very healthy, and the kit came with everything we need to raise these little guys. I'm very happy with this purchase.

One of the cups only had 3 caterpillars which was a bummer since I ordered this expecting 5 in each. Aloe please note the last sentence on the description to not order when temperatures are below 55 or above 85. Some of our caterpillars arrive dead, which included the cup that only had three to begin with.

I was worried because there was a cold spell right after I ordered. It got down to freezing. I figured only a couple, if any, would survive the shipping. However, we have 9/10 big, healthy caterpillars! Very happy with my purchase. Nice home schooling project.

Perfect, educational, and exciting for my littles. They loved awaiting the butterflies and watching them transform! We only had 1 little guy that didn't make it.

Honestly the saddest experience ever. Only one caterpillar attached properly to the lid. The rest formed their chrysalises directly on the food, which caused deformities when they hatched. Their wings were all crumpled and they were suffering, so I sadly had to euthanize them. When the cups arrived, they were also extremely messy and there were even dead caterpillars inside. I ended up ordering new caterpillars from Monarch Butterflies Canada and the experience has already been SO much better. This time, they’re all in separate containers, which helps prevent overcrowding, contamination, and caterpillars disturbing each other while forming their chrysalis. The instructions were also way clearer and the containers arrived clean and organized. None of the new caterpillars have formed their chrysalises yet, but all 10 are still alive and healthy so far, and I already have way higher hopes with this website than the first one I bought from. I would not reccomend this product sorry