It's that time of year to purchase live butterfly larvae and what's even better is that Hip2Homeschool is giving away a free Butterfly Unit Study for a limited time! She is a fellow homeschooling mom and creates really fantastic unit studies at very reasonable prices :) You can find them on the subjects of history/geography, science, literature & holidays. All you need to do in order to get your butterfly unit is to click on her 'Contact Me' VW bus and let her know you would like it along with your email address.
Now if your interest in raising butterfly larvae has been piqued then you still have time to purchase some! Boreal in Ontario is still shipping them across Canada. They have 2 sets to choose from:
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The first one is a complete kit that includes the cage, 30 larvae, food and so on. Everything you need to successfully raise your butterflies. If you already have a container for your larvae to go in you can just purchase the 30 larvae or as little as 5 larvae. The large amount would be a great idea if your local homeschool group wanted to go in together because if you divided it up amongst 6 families it would be considerably cheaper than going it alone and the shipping would be next to nothing split between all of the families.
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The second kit that they sell is theButterfly Garden Kit which is a smaller kit perfect for an individual family. It comes with a habitat, 5 painted lady butterflies and instructions on how to raise them :) This is the one that I purchased today. Now in the fine print on the website it says that they do not ship to Canada but apparently this is not correct. When I spoke to customer service she said that they DO ship across Canada by DHL courier (first upcoming available shipping date is May5th) and they will be sending live larvae not a coupon. There is also a problem with the oder SKU# listed for the Butterfly Garden Kit on the page for it. When you order quote the SKU# 2899890, this is the correct one. For some reason she said they are having trouble with their website and things are a little jumbled right now. You can double check when you order to make sure that it is correct but I used that number successfully.
I can't wait to get them. They will ship our order May 5th and she figured that it would take about 2 days to reach BC so delivery should be Wednesday May 7th. That should give me enough time to find the books recommended in the Butterfly Unit Study and any other materials I want to use :) Let me know if you are raising butterflies this year to. We would love to see how they are doing!
YAY!!! I thought someone here in blog world would be doing one of these. We've seen it advertised but we havent phoned in our order. The kids have wanted to do this for sometime. Kaden, in fact, found a caterpillar out back and wanted to keep it til turned into a butterfuly, but we didnt know how to keep one. So when we saw these kids a few weeks ago, I thought thats it!
Thanks for the reminder!!
Nice to find your blog. We just finished raising 7 Painted Lady Butterflies, but it was still too cold to release them. So we gave them thistles and they laid eggs and we are starting the cycle again. It is really so much fun. We have pictures on my blog, if you'd like to see. It looks like we like to do similar things.
Elizabeth Joy
www.morninglightblogger.blogspot.com
