| Live Butterfly Pavilion | 
| Brand: Insect Lore
Category: Toy
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $14.79
You Save: $15.20 (51%)
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Rating:  210 reviews
Sales Rank: 692
Batteries Included: No
Age: 4 - 11 years
Size: Pavilion
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 15.5 x 3.1 x 15.6
MPN: 4100192
Model: 4100192
UPC: 735569031102
EAN: 0735569031102
ASIN: B00004U5UF
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: CLEARANCE! Brand new and ships fast.
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| Features:
| • | Award winning butterfly habitat | | • | Everything you need to raise your very own painted lady butterflies | | • | Includes certificate for 10 live caterpillars | | • | Perfectly safe to release or keep indoors for observation | | • | Comes with complete instructions |
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Product Description
The 2-foot tall Butterfly Pavilion pops-up easily. Hang it from a string or set it on a table-top. The see-through mesh and zippered entry allow easy access for care and feeding. Includes habitat, mail-in coupon for 6-10 Painted Lady butterfly larvae with special food and complete instructions. Please be advised that there is an additional $5.00 required when redeeming your coupon for shipping and handling. Available only in the Continental U.S. and Alaska.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 205 more reviews...
 Butterfly pavilion a big hit. December 18, 2008
Carol Smith
My grandson is 5 and really enjoyed the butterfly pavilion. A great educational tool!
 Great fun! December 13, 2008
T. Sherwood
We bought this and I thought that it might be hard to maintain - but it was QUITE easy - it was so fun to watch the caterpillars turn into butterflies - they were so pretty too. I just ordered another one.
Fun for the Entire Family November 22, 2008
Thankful Mom
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A coworker told me about Insect Lore and the Live Butterfly Garden and how much her family enjoyed it. She highly recommended it, so I bought a kit for my kids. My entire family enjoyed the experience. Watching the transformation is amazing! Although we missed all the butterflies emerge, it was so much fun to let them go. My kids were thrilled that they stayed on their hands and flapped their wings before flying away. I have some amazing pictures we'll treasure. About two months after I bought my kit from Amazon, WalMart had some (packaged differently) on closeout. I bought all four of them! Three I kept for myself to give away as gifts and the remaining one a coworker snatched up.
Another positive thing worth mentioning is my experience with Insect Lore directly. My kit was missing the certificate for the live caterpillars and all I needed to do was send a check to the company for the shipping (which you'd have to do anyway) along with the UPC barcode from the box and I received my package. Their customer service department was great!
Enchanting Butterfly Experience November 14, 2008
Cathytg (California)
My daughter recieved this as a gift and I was pretty skeptical, but lo and behold -- we successfully raised all ten caterpillars and released them as adult butterflies. You don't need to feed or interact with the caterpillars: they come in transparent sealed containers with their own food. This means that kids can't play with them (my daughter was disappointed that her new pets couldn't walk on her fingers) but also means that you do not need to deal with the mountains of caterpillar poop that they produce.
When they pupate, you open the containers and pin the lids (where they instinctively attach themselves) inside the pavillion. Everything the insructions say will happen does, in fact, happen, and within a week or so your beautiful painted lady butterflies emerge. We kept ours for a few days and then set them free -- a satisfying experience from start to finish.
The whole system is extremely well thought out and the instructions are clear. Be sure to visit Insect Lore's web site, because it's full of helpful information and tips -- our pupas were wiggling and rocking alarmingly, and their FAQs anticipated the question and explained why they do that.
My only quibble is that the sugar water solution we fed to the butterflies tended to soak through the floor of the pavilion, making a sticky mess -- we had to put an old towel underneath. Otherwise, this was a smashing success and my kid can't wait to order another batch of caterpillars.
Worked as advertised October 24, 2008
Brian (Santa Clara, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pretty easy to do. requires a temperate environment not in direct sunlight. The kids loved it and had a great time when they shared it at daycare. [...]
we paired with with the "from caterpillar to butterfly" book.
Be aware that you have to send or fax in the certificate. It is odd that the refills [...] from insect lore essentially cost as much as the original product. [...]
I will say I was concerned that when the caterpillars first arrived they were pretty sluggish to the point where I thought some might have been dead. After about 2 days it was obvious all 5 were alive. 9 days after arrival we had them hanging off the top of the container the caterpillars came in. About 9 days after that we had 3 of the 5 butterflies. The next day at daycare the other 2 came out of their chrysalises. Now we're feeding them sugar water until we release them in a few days.
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