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!
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
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: 4.9323306 / 5 from 133 reviews.
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.
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"My granddaughter just loved her present of caterpillars and was so excited when her beautiful butterflies hatched. Thank you Becky for very quickly sorting out my mistake with incorrect address. I was very satisfied with and will certainly buy from you again."
"Thank you so much for a great experience for my children. All caterpillars transformed into butterflies. In fact I was worried about 2 of them so I sent a photo and someone got back to me with advice."
"Done the caterpillars one 3 times now. My present batch are chrysalis. Kids love watching these ( and adults). Watching butterflies 🦋 fly away is magical"
"I have purchased the butterfly refills for approximately 5 years! I buy them for my grandson and every year is magical! We’ve always had every butterfly emerge and be healthy! We love releasing them and they always sit on our hands for a few minutes before flying off! Highly recommended"
"Unfortunately only one caterpillar survived to the chrisalide stage which we are currently at. As a childminder I have bought these every year for the children to observe and never had any issues so not sure what went wrong this time but I do know it’s not guaranteed for them to all hatch. I am still giving 5 stars as you are a great company and will be ordering again as the children love watching them grow Lisa"
"Delighted to be able to buy a refill set. The set contains everything you need to repeat the wonderful process of raising caterpillars, and you get all the same tips and advice from Insect Lore as first time around. Also worth noting that the website FAQs are really helpful! One of our chrysalides fell off the lid. . . but we knew what to do! Another caterpillar was still crawling around whilst the rest had formed chrysalides - again, we knew what to do! Thank you Insect Lore, you do a great job!"
"This year, all 5 of our caterpillars hatched successfully into butterflies and we even managed to video the last one emerging. My teenage daughter loves watching the whole process, especially releasing them and watching them fly away."
"Excellent. Children loved watching them grow and being released. They were sad that one died in the chrysalis. We are childminders and parents were educated too."
"Really enjoyed growing these caterpillars with my children! And because of the weather it happened fairly quickly. The instructions were clear and easy to follow and I found it fascinating to watch them especially when they emerged as butterflies!! Will definitely buy again!"
"Last year all five caterpillars hatched it was great this year sadly on three have made it into butterflies not sure why two didn’t make it tomorrow is release day great fun"
