Refill Caterpillar Set for Butterfly Garden

SKU: 102 SKU: 102x

Insect Lore Refill Cup of Caterpillars!

Order refills for any Butterfly Garden, or if you need additional caterpillars.

Choose a dispatch date from the calendar to receive the LIVE option, or select a paper VOUCHER to redeem later - perfect as a gift or if you don’t yet know when you’d like to start the project. When you redeem it, you do not need to pay postage (LIVE refill only).

When purchasing this product, please note it is a REFILL and includes a clear cup with caterpillars and food ONLY. Be sure to provide a habitat in which your butterflies will emerge, or purchase one of our Butterfly Kits that include everything you need!

The LIVE refill caterpillar set includes:

Cup of 3-5 LIVE caterpillars with all the nutritious food they need to grow into lovable Painted Lady butterflies
Caterpillar Quick Guide - a brief overview to get you started. For in-depth instructions regarding caterpillar and butterfly care please see our Live Butterfly Garden Instructions
Chrysalis Station - for transferring the chrysalis into the habitat
Insect Lore sugar packet to make your very own butterfly nectar

Caterpillars sent March to mid-September only

Ages 4+

Price: £12.98 incl VAT (£10.82 ex VAT)

*For UK Delivery only - If only ordering this one item, postage will be at a reduced rate of £2.99 instead of our standard shipping charge of £4.95. Please choose the reduced rate during check out.

Next Day DHL Delivery (UK addresses only) – If your order includes a LIVE refill, it will be dispatched on your selected send-out date. Please note that this service does not include weekend deliveries.

Need help with your Caterpillar to Butterfly Process? - Watch these informative videos

Click here to watch how to set up your Chrysalis Station

Click here for hints and tips on how to care for your Chrysalis

Click here for hints and tips on feeding your Butterflies

Click here for hints and tips on releasing your Butterflies

All non-live orders leave our offices within 1-3 working days unless the item(s) are out of stock, or if your order includes a Live product with a chosen send-out date of 3 weeks or less away (in which case we will dispatch all goods, live and non-live, on the requested send out date).

Once your order is dispatched, standard delivery time for the UK is approximately 1- 4 working days, depending on your location. Please allow 10 days for orders outside of the UK. A Next Working Day option is available for UK delivery only (excludes weekends).

Overall rating: 4.9029126 / 5 from 206 reviews.

AI Generated Review Summary

This refill set for the Butterfly Garden includes live caterpillars, food, and essential tools for nurturing them into butterflies. Customers appreciate the engaging experience and the quality of the caterpillars.

Summary topics

Caterpillar Quality (23%): A significant number of customers appreciated the caterpillars and loved watching them grow and turn into butterflies.
Engaging Experience (18%): A significant number of customers appreciated the amazing and magical experience of watching caterpillars develop in nurseries.

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Review highlights

"The children in our nursery loved this experience and where fascinated watching the caterpillars develop." — Michelle W.
"Caterpillars arrive very quickly and we have never had any failures yet." — Suzanne P.
"My grandchildren look forward to receiving their tiny caterpillars every Easter." — Tessa B.

Reviews

A wonderful experience 🐛🦋✨

"Absolutely brilliant experience from start to finish! 🐛🦋. My boys have loved watching their caterpillars grow, form their chrysalises and finally emerge as beautiful butterflies. It’s been amazing watching the whole life cycle happen right in front of us, and such a lovely, hands-on way for them to learn about nature. The caterpillars arrived healthy, the instructions were easy to follow, and everything we needed was included. Seeing the excitement on the boys’ faces when each butterfly emerged was priceless! 🥹🦋 We’ve absolutely loved our Butterfly Garden and would 100% recommend it to other families. Such a magical experience and one we’ll remember for a long time! 🤍✨"

— Natalie H. (5/5)

A really lovely experience for

"A really lovely experience for my three year old, she loves watching the caterpillars change though she was very sad to see the butterfly’s go. This will definitely become our new summer tradition. Excellent value for money!"

— Lauren O. (5/5)

Done this last 3 years

"Done this last 3 years love letting my butterflies go but love watching them grow And I’m a 53 year old 😂"

— Kirsty B. (5/5)

A a great experience

"A wonderful experience as always, both for child and adults. Love seeing my daughters excitement when she releases the butterflies. Have the caterpillars every year and we never get bored of it. So glad my daughter get's to this life cycle first hand. Highly recommend this company."

— Sam (5/5)

Returning customer!!! Love getting caterpillars

"Returning customer!!! Love getting caterpillars and watching them grow. Usually we only have one loss, for some reason this time we had more loss than survivors. Even the replacements we only had two make it. But that is nature, out of 15 caterpillars we have released 8 healthy butterflies!!!"

— Ruth B. (4/5)

It was all delivered in

"It was all delivered in good packaging. The caterpillars were all alive and ended up with beautiful butterflies. Which were released in the garden. And the children loved them."

— Dr E. (5/5)

Fantastic experience as usual even

"Fantastic experience as usual even though my children are older now we still enjoy watching the caterpillars change and releasing them into our garden in hopes we see more nature in the garden. Only downside was when the postie left them on the doorstep in the heat. But great communication from the company about this and we had four successful butterflies."

— Lesley B. (5/5)

Wonderful!

"Our second time raising caterpillars to butterflies! It's always an amazing experience and the insect lore kit makes it all so easy. We've had a 100% success rate both times and we'll definitely be doing it again in the future."

— Wren M. (5/5)

First time buying

"Got to say this is the first time buying the caterpillars. I brought them for my girls so could watch something grow into something beautiful. They are now in their “j” shape so won’t be long now. Will 100% order again as this is such an amazing experience."

— Sophie (5/5)

It was so mesmerizing to

"It was so mesmerizing to see the transformation. It should be a must to experience at least once in a lifetime (for me this was the 3rd time, still amazing)."

— Eva K. (5/5)

Q&A

Hi, if I order the Live caterpillar today when will the delivery come uk.: Hello, Delivery to UK addresses is 1-3 working days from the chosen dispatch date.
Do you deliver to Switzerland? I tried to order but it was written no delivery to this region: Hello, Unfortunately, we do not delivered to Switzerland due to customs restrictions.
Hi there! I’m just wondering about next year’s order. I’m a Reception teacher and our topic for this half term has been all about spring. The children have loved watching the caterpillars grow and they were delivered on 6th March, but they did not pupate before the start of the Easter holidays (today). I’m looking ahead to next year to see if I can order the caterpillars any earlier so that the children can hopefully see them pupate before the Easter break. I know they are only available between March and September, but will I be able to preorder caterpillars to be dispatched or delivered on 1st March 2027? Sorry for the long question! Thank you in advance.: Hello Hannah, Because Easter was so early this year, we were advising people to order after Easter this year. Apologies, if you did not receive this message! With Easter being even earlier this year, even if you order for our first dispatch you will still not have enough time as the process can take 5 weeks in March! We would advise next year, doing the project after the Easter Holidays.

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