The Best Live Butterfly Kits and Ant Kits for Educators and Home Schools

                                                                                         

Insects are popular among educators and home school families alike. It's fun to plan adventures in the backyard or at the local park to gather butterflies and ants for studying.

Note only some of the main points of interest for students:

Butterflies belong to the Lepidoptera (scaly wings in Greek) order. The name is given to them as to correctly classify them as they have large number of scales on their wings and bodies. These scales give them their signature tenderness and beauty.

Butterflies are absolutely wonderful creatures that can develop keen interest in children through their amazing life cycle. As per your requirement, we can provide you all kinds of butterfly kits and gift items. We also supply live ant kits that work very well for children.

Butterfly kits can be an enriching school project for your children or your class. It is a magnificent experience to watch the beautiful butterfly progress from a caterpillar. Watch them grow from caterpillar to chrysalis, and finally into a colorful butterfly. All will have a delightful experience watching them as they eat, crawl, spin silk and grow. The process takes around 3 weeks. The butterflies can then be released into the wild and eager learners can watch them in flight.

The butterfly kits from the Butterfly & Nature Gift Store include covered cups with caterpillars and their food, a butterfly habitat which can be reused, a butterfly feeder with a cotton wick and eye dropper, feeding solution with two packets of sugar and a mister. You only need to provide water to mix the sugar solution and sometimes small pieces of fruit, like banana or orange.

The caterpillars will need a bit of caring. In their natural habitats, they prefer mallow leaves and hollyhock plants, which can be added to the artificial habitat. The live butterfly kits provide them with a concentrated diet which is suitable for them. The habitat will also need to be cleaned the cup regularly, without shaking them. Caterpillars should be kept at room temperature and out of direct sunlight.

In about 5 to10 days, caterpillars will develop to chrysalis. 7 to 10 days after that, the butterfly will emerge. It is safe to release the butterflies when the outside temperature is at least 55 degrees Fahrenheit.

Butterfly kits allow children and adults to observe and learn about butterflies. The kits provided by the Butterfly & Nature Gift Store can be reused- simply order more caterpillars and food.

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Keeping this info in mind, the Butterfly & Nature Gift Store has come up with a special school-size butterfly kit which is specially designed for a class of 30 students. They provide 30 caterpillars, 30 small cups and lids, transfer brushes, filter papers, mister butterfly feeder and sugar, eye dropper, reusable 2-foot tall habitat, life cycle coloring page and easy instructions.

Ant kits are also available from Butterfly & Nature Gift Store. Students can observe and understand the behavior of ants while watching them as they make tunnels and chambers, and perform different jobs like digging and gathering food. Watch the ants maintain their environment, as they remove the dead ants from inside the tunnels. Enjoy this and many more activities while teaching children about these amazing creatures.

Butterfly and ant kits supply hours of fun, education and adventure. There are plenty of insect farms available from the Butterfly & Nature Gift Store. Kits are delivered in about 3 to 6 weeks. Order today for your home school and other teaching projects.

Learn more at: http://www.butterfly-gifts.com/live-butterfly-kits.html

About the author:
Randi has always loved nature. While attaining her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, she discovered her love for insects. She then entered a graduate program in Entomology (insects) and got her Master of Science degree in Agricultural Entomology. While attaining her degree, she discovered how little exposure people had to the exotic and interesting insects of the world.
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