Insect Lore Butterfly Pavilion with Two Live Cups of Caterpillars - 2ft Tall Habitat, STEM Butterfly Journal, 10 Live Baby Caterpillars - Life Science Education Kit - Raise Painted Lady Butterflies

This was wonderful and my granddaughter loved it!!! So much fun to watch the tiny caterpillers turn into big, fat caterpillers, they build a cocoon and finally hatch out as beautiful butterflies.

My children enjoyed watching the caterpillars grow and releasing the butterflies in the wild. 8 out of 10 formed crystalises. 6 out of 10 caterpillars became butterflies. They emerged different days. 1 emergrd 2 days after. There were 3 but only 1 was translucent and light tan in color. The other 2 where smaller and nearly black. I made tge mistake of thinking the lid was supposed to be removed, once all the catipellers "attached" themselves to the lid. I believe I was supposed to wait until they all formed their chrysalis. When I removed the lid and put it in the holder, a few caterpillars decided to crawl to top of habitat. I don't think this affected their survival as the 1 each that did emerge where on lid and on roof of habitat. It just made visually watching them more difficult.

Loved raising and hatchinng butterflies even as an adult!!

I got this for my nephew for his 4th birthday. He said he wanted "butterflies", so I thought this would be cool gift. At first, when they were caterpillars, he wasn't too interested, but they grew pretty quickly and then formed their cocoons. After that he would check them every day to see if they turned into butterflies yet. Finally they did and he was so excited. He got to put a couple of his orange slices in the net to fee them. After a couple of days he said goodbye and got to let them go in his yard. The whole process took about 3 weeks from when the package arrived to the release. The container for the caterpillars was perfect, they just stayed in there and did their thing until they were cocoons so no one had to touch them. I would absolutely recommend this for kids.

This was my granddaughter’s favorite birthday present ever and I am the best Noni ever. Better than her other grandmother. OH YEAH. Heh.

I bought this for my husband for Easter & we both enjoyed watching the caterpillars metamorphosis to butterflies. it was a beautiful experience releasing them into our backyard. I bought one for my grandson, who loved it as well.

This is my favorite thing to do in spring with my prek students. 9/10 caterpillars hatched into butterflies. One got knocked off and I dont think he survived.

Only included 7 caterpillars, not 10. Might as well have not paid the extra money and just gotten the much cheaper 5 caterpillar version. The caterpillars also arrived full-grown (turned into chrysalides the next day) so the kids weren’t able to see the lifecycle of the caterpillars growing like they usually do.