Insect Lore2 Cups of Caterpillars Basic | 10 Live Baby Painted Lady Caterpillars | Refill for Habitat Kit | Caterpillars and Food Included

I feel these were on the more expensive side but all but one caterpillar made it all the way through to butterflies we could release, Order early in the season, last year I ordered too late and the caterpillars were full grown already and went into crystallis with a day of getting them. This year I ordered earlier, the caterpillars were so tiny and we got to watch the grow. Make sure to put them in something with a waterproof bottom, it gets a little messy when the butterflies come out of their crystallis. Beautiful butterflies, easy to use!

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.

I rebuy these every year for my kids. We love watching them grow! Every single one grew into a butterfly this year! so fun and educational. A must have in our house every spring.

This item said it came with five caterpillars, but ours only came with 4. Additionally, only three hatched. So to expect five and only get three, I have to give this item 3 stars. I previously purchased from another supplier and had much better luck.

My nieces love these. I usually get one of them some of these every year. I always look for the Insect Lore caterpillars because they always arrive in great condition. For the first 12 hours or so, the caterpillars seem sluggish. (I would be sluggish, too, if I had just been shipped over the road for hours to days.) Then they start to rouse themselves and get busy. We love these. The process is wonderful to behold. I've also gotten these as a gift for a housebound elderly person in the family, and it was really a blessing to see how much joy it brought for that person to be able to watch this process right next to their chair all that time.

I always order from insect lore and have always had good experiences. Overall, this cup of caterpillars was good and my students enjoyed getting to see the life cycle. I gave 4 stars because the cup came with my caterpillar already dead.

I love buying these every year for my classroom to watch the spring transformation. I have always had all of my caterpillars make it to the butterfly stage. What a special treat for the students to watch and observe this transformation each year.

This item came with five caterpillars they have all cocooned the educational value is awesome and it is fun for my daughter good quality for the money but I hate to say it my daughter was so discouraged when one of them came out of their little cocoon deformed see we were wanting to let them all go not have to keep one but no matter the difference she said she'll take care of it as long as it lives sad story the other butterflies are attacking it another sad thing is you might want to move them two days after they all have gone up to the top to make their little cocoons because one of them decided it wanted to hatch 3 days after when I was trying to wait the 3 days to put them on the top but like I said one hatched the day we were supposed to move them all into the habitat we woke up that morning was getting everything ready to move them over and one was a butterfly in the little kit