Butterfly Garden Home School Edition (Includes prepaid voucher to redeem for caterpillars)


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Description

Butterfly Garden Home School Edition

  • Suitable for ages 4 and up, offering a hands-on way to learn about nature and life cycles.

  • 30 cm tall, four-sided habitat with an Ultra-Clear™ front viewing panel for close observation.

  • Fold-out learning panel packed with facts about each stage of metamorphosis.

  • Includes a voucher to redeem 3–5 live caterpillars (available March–mid-September), which arrive in a clear food cup.

  • Watch them eat, spin silk, grow to 10× their size, hang upside down, and form chrysalides.

  • After 7–10 days, transfer chrysalides to the habitat using the holding log; adult butterflies emerge about 7–10 days later.

  • Whole cycle takes 3–5 weeks (longer in early spring and autumn, as little as 3 weeks in summer).

The Butterfly Garden Home School Edition includes:

    • Special four-sided 30cm tall Habitat with Ultra-Clear™ front viewing section
    • Voucher to redeem for caterpillars (caterpillars available March to mid-September)
    • STEM Butterfly Diary
    • Chrysalis Holding Log
    • Flower Butterfly Feeder
    • Feeding Pipette
    • Instruction booklet
    • Insect Lore sugar packet to make your very own Butterfly nectar (arrives with the caterpillars)

Caterpillars can be ordered from now through to mid-September.

At the start of the season in March and April, the cycle is generally around 5 weeks, this time reduces as the weather improves, at the height of summer the cycle can be as little as 3 weeks to complete.  As the weather cools in September the cycle will go back to 4-5 weeks.