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

We did this last summer and it was a great experience. All of the caterpillars arrived alive and thriving. All of them went into their chrysalis and all of them hatched out. I love the educational insert that came with it. I feel like it was money well spent for the experience. Can’t wait to do it again.

My kids loved watching all of the changes and learning about their metamorphosis. Our caterpillars were bigger than we expected them to be, but they were also late being deliver. We didn't catch them coming of their cocoons, which was a bummer, but they all came out within 24 hrs of the 1st one. Don't be alarmed by the red (meconium:poop), my kids thought it was blood. I will say I thought there would be less as the instructions made it seem like a drop here or there and maybe I just didn't think there would be much. We released the butterflies a couple days after all of them emerged. My kids already want to do it again.

We order the full starter kit last year and the caterpillars were full grown and cocooned that night. Only 3 of them “survived.” One didn’t cocoon completely and when it tried to come out, the bottom half was still a caterpillar. It was horrible to watch. Another had a folded wing and had a hard time flying. Only one of the surviving 3 was actually well enough to fly off on it’s own without issue. This year, seeing as the reviews are so great, I hoped last year’s incident was a fluke and tried again. Our caterpillars just arrived and this time, 3 of the 5 caterpillars are already cocooned and in this big ball all together. I highly doubt that they will survive. Returning these and reordering directly from the company in hopes that I have a better experience. I know so many people who have taken part in this activity with their kids and had great experiences. Just really disappointed in mine.

We ordered may 26th they were shipped within 3 days of ordering. I was concerned because one shipping stop was through pheonix amd it is hot there. When we opened the box all the caterpillars appeared dead. But the next day all 5 were up amd moving within a few days they were big fat caterpillars so if shipping takes too long you will not get small caterpillars. The kids loved watching these at all stages. The. Butterfly's were not theost beautiful they were more moth like colors. It was neat to see them anyway

These arrived just as they appear in the images, with all of the parts listed. All 10 caterpillars were alive, changed into their chrysalis within 2 days of each other, and emerged as butterflies within two days of each other, too. It was about 2 weeks exactly from the time that the caterpillars arrived to the time they emerged, to give you a sense of the timeline. (They went into chrysalis at about 7 days after their arrival.) It was neat to watch the whole process with the students, and they especially liked releasing them. I would purchase these again! If I were to suggest one thing to the company, it might be making a larger surface area for the lid. In each container, there wasn’t much space for the caterpillars to hang for their chrysalis, and one chrysalis did get knocked down into the substrate by another when it was wiggling it’s old skin off. I had to pick it up and tie it with a string to the mesh on the side of the enclosure, and it did survive.

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

There was only one caterpillar that was visible and it was already a crystalis when it arrived it was also dead and buried in the food I’m still waiting for it to be redelivered