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

Our Caterpillar Season has come to an end for 2025, but will resume again in March 2026.

Our Live Butterfly Kits with Caterpillar Vouchers are still available to buy Year-round!

Vouchers are redeemable for Caterpillar dispatches from March-September 2026.

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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.