4th Feb 2012

Creepy Crawly Kits

Insects inside!

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Adding the egg and cabbage to the net cube

Add your new best friend with his food into the net cube

We reckon David Attenborough has got it right. Why spend your downtime slouched in front of the telly when you could be up to your elbows in the natural world? You’re never too young to become the neighbourhood’s number one naturalist, which is why we’re buzzing and flapping in excitement over these incredible insect-friendly kits.

The Creepy Crawly Kit comes in two versions – Butterfly and Stick Insect – and lets you observe and enjoy the terrifically bizarre world of these invertebrate beauties. Whether you’re watching the eggs hatching or just crooning a song as they chow down on their leaves and nectar, you’ll be transported into a little world all of your own.

Each bug house is a self-contained world for your insect pals: a roomy 28 x 30 x 27.5cm net cube that lets the breeze through, and it comes with a feeding pipette, tweezers and magnifying glass to let you care for them in close-up. You also receive a handy step-by-step guide that takes you by the mandible and explains just how to order your own insect eggs and how to care for them once they’ve made themselves at home.

Feeding with the pipette Using the magnifying glass The tweezers

Feed your egg with the pipette

Watch your caterpillar grow and grow

Use the tweezers for any intricate emergencies!

Colouring book with games

The instructions double up as a colouring book with games!


There’s more to these super-skinny stick insects and billowy-winged butterflies that you might think. The humble stick insect can wave around to simulate being blown in the wind – and some species even vomit on their attackers when threatened, just like Amy Winehouse. And the butterfly has more than great looks – it can taste food through its feet and lift 50 times its own bodyweight, a skill it shares with Vin Diesel. Well, the lifting perhaps. Not the foot thing.

The Creepy Crawly Kit is suitable for anyone over five years old who loves the natural world and the wonderfully weird things that live in it. We’re talking compound eyes and green skin weird, by the way, not living in a car and having a pet pasty weird. That’s a kit we don’t sell!

The kits available...

The Butterfly Kit

The Butterfly Kit

The Stick Insect Kit

The Stick Insect Kit

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Please note:
  • For Ages 5+
  • These kits do not include eggs or live stock. Inside the kit it gives you details how to send off for your eggs to grow your stick insects or butterflies
  • You will receive larvae to breed Cabbage White butterflies, not Red Lady butterflies as photographed in the main image
 Butterfly KitStick Insect Kit
Features:
  • Observe the life-cycle of your own live butterflies!
  • Watch as your caterpillars grow, transform and emerge as butterflies
  • Includes net habitat allowing you to study the butterflies, then release them into the wild
  • Includes details of how to purchase larvae by post
  • Observe the life-cycle of your own live stick insects!
  • Watch as the tiny brown eggs hatch and emerge as stick insects
  • Includes net habitat allowing you to study and care for this gentle leaf-eating creature
  • Includes details of how to purchase eggs by post
Contents:
  • Instruction book with information and activities about the Cabbage White Butterfly "Pieris Brassica"
  • Beautiful net habitat
  • Includes Feeding Pipette, Magnifier and Tweezers
  • Order details to buy your caterpillar eggs online or by mail-order and receive them by post
  • Instruction book with information and activites abouyt the stick insects "Carausius Morosus"
  • Beautiful net habitat
  • Includes tools such as Feeding pipette, Magnifier and Tweezers
  • Order details to buy your stick insect eggs online or by mail-order and receive by post
Dimensions:
  • Approximately 28 x 30 x 27.5cm
  • Approximately 28 x 30 x 27.5cm

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Visitor Reviews...

visitor avatar Thinking of buying the butterfly kit but they don't seem to be on sale, should I wait (will they come back into stock?) or should I look else where?
Sean, UK - 1st April 2010
Firebox says: Sorry Sean, these are now being discontinued so once the Stick Insect Kits are sold through they will removed from the site.
visitor avatar I'm buying the kit as a present and I want to buy the eggs myself so I can include it in the pack, saves my neices the trouble. How much will the eggs be, including P&P?
Terri, West Sussex - 29th November 2009
Firebox says: Stick insects: £4.50 x 10 Eggs Ladybird Eggs: £6 x 20-30 Larvae Butterfly (Caterpillars): £6 x 5 Eggs and P&P is about £3
visitor avatar Not really a review... Was thinking about ordering this for an xmas present, how much do the eggs cost and are they seasonal or can you get them all year round?
Russell Watson, Scotland - 26th November 2009
Firebox says: Costs are available through the suppliers website here: http://www.brainstormltd.co.uk/catalogue/ProductList.aspx, and they're available year round.
visitor avatar Hi I bought this for my daughters 3 and 5, they LOVED it even though we got the larve very late in sept which is nearly the last date for dispatch. Please be advised that the larve have to be ordered sepertelyat extra cost. I also bought for a gift and is a great gift idea for this age group.
Sharon Shevlin, Dublin - 13th November 2009
visitor avatar This is a great kit to get started with looking after insects at home. The "tank" is a sort of pop up half mesh/half clear PVC tent which is the right size for your insects but not too big. Please note you need to send off a form and pay extra to receive your insect eggs. THEY ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE BOX.
SlayerKat, London, England - 10th July 2009
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