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[rapunzel]

Hi Everyone,

Its been a long time since i visited but i need help!!! A few years ago at nursery we bought a net butterfly house and it came with 5 caterpillars which the children observed as they turned into butterflies. Does anyone haveany idea where i can get these from?

Thank you inadvance for any help :D

[JacquieL]

Great fun and very interesting.

http://www.insectlor.../livbutkit.html

[Linda McDowell]

Just about to post the same Jacquie! I have just ordered our caterpillars due early June.
Linda

[nicki-k]

Hi Rapunzel,

I have just bought mine from Kent County Council Supplies. You are supposed to receive 5 caterpillars through the post approximately five days from sending off the certificate. I am going to send mine during the Easter hols. Can't wait as we haven't had a butterfly garden before. A parent brought in a chrysallis last year and we studied it for about 6 weeks before we realised it was dead!!!!

[Wolfie]

Small Life Supplies also has a website - we got ours from there.

[MARYS]

we have had ors for three weeks in the unit and they have all gone into coccoons, :D we are hoping for butterflies before we break up for easter.
we have about 25.
cant remember where we ordered them from but could post on monday.
last year we kept the caterpillars on a shelf with a strong light above and a lot of them died, so this year we made sure there was no strong light above them.

[Rea]

I got mine from the education show, www.warwickinsect.co.uk
3 of them have today gone to the top of the pot so they may be starting to change. They really are great, I might even get some for the children! :D

[mundia]

Please can I ask that you get your caterpillars (and ladybirds if you breed them too) from a UK breeding source (if you are in the UK). A well known company recently mentioned tend to get their supplies from Belgium, or at least they used to, so please check on the source before purchase.

I use justgreen or greengardener, although Rea's place warwickinsects seem well priced.

[NicLDDC]

Hi
Thanks for this post, I ordered some last week and we are all looking forward to seeing how it goes, we havent done anything like this before!

THe children are excited too as we are doing a gardening project at the minute.

So thanks

Nicola

[Marion]

http://www.silkworm-...o.uk/WITEd1.htm
http://www.greengard...k/butterfly.htm

[abt]

I was just abot to ask about these kits when I found your conversation, have ordered them now and can't wait to share them with the children. Thanks for the help!
Alex

[Dawn]

Hi

i ordered my butterfly garden and caterpillars from the insect lore link here, well the caterpillars have arfrived but no sign of butterfly garden yet, should i be worried, do they normally dispatch seperatly?

Dawn

[Inge]

got mine from green gardener...they were cheaper by £1.00 and no P&P , difference being you send certificate for caterpillars once arrived, but it arrived in 48 hrs.

So cannot really help with question, did you get all the info with the caterpillars on care etc mine came with the butterfly garden.....if not the green gardener site has really clear pictures and instructions.

Inge

[Dawn]

Inge, on Apr 26 2007, 20:29, said:

got mine from green gardener...they were cheaper by £1.00 and no P&P , difference being you send certificate for caterpillars once arrived, but it arrived in 48 hrs.

So cannot really help with question, did you get all the info with the caterpillars on care etc mine came with the butterfly garden.....if not the green gardener site has really clear pictures and instructions.

Inge

HI inge,

Yes we got info to care for them etc, but no butterfly garden... will have to see if it arrives today

Dawn

[MissSunnyDay]

oh er!, we recived our pupa's last friday, took them in this monday and started our project. The information pack said they should hatch in about ten days. This morning they had hatched! not quite the ten days as expected, released them this morning on a flower bed with the children. This was a quick turn around and it is a shame the monday children havn't had a chance to see them, took lots of photos for them though, good job the project was completed and all children had observed the pupa's during the week! Now if you had a short time span to watch these change i bet they would have taken longer!!!!