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 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!❤️🦋

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.

InsectLore is a great company! My school has used their products for many years and we are never disappointed. This is a great "re-fill" for the butterfly kit we purchased many years back. The caterpillars arrived safely, approx 5-6 per cup and have already doubled in size!

My grandson and I "hatched" butterflies last Spring with these. One was doa, and another died shortly after arrival. However, the rest made it to adulthood, and were exciting to release into my garden.

My grandkid is 4½, and this is the third year we've bought caterpillars. We had 5 healthy bugs, and one (bonus) "slow-poke". All 6 made cocoons. 5 butterflies emerged, and we were a bit concerned about the runt, needing to explain that it might not be alive any more. After we released the first 5, about a half week later #6 emerged and flew away to join its siblings! Very happy with our results - beyond expectations!

One of my cups only contained 4 caterpillars. I reached out to insect lore and they have not responded at all. Next time I will likely buy from another retailer. I will say all 9 became butterflies, but it was pretty disappointing to be missing one and then to not be replied to is poor customer service.

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.