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singlewiththree
09-04-2010, 04:03 PM
Anyone doing Butterflies this year? Any good cheap places to get them?

It's a small world
09-04-2010, 04:44 PM
:eek: aarrrrggghhhhhh butterflies aaarrrggghhhh:eek: sorry real
phobia with butterflies . So can't really help have you tried googling ? Eeewwww cringing now:laughing:

Mookins
09-04-2010, 04:57 PM
:eek: aarrrrggghhhhhh butterflies aaarrrggghhhh:eek: sorry real
phobia with butterflies . So can't really help have you tried googling ? Eeewwww cringing now:laughing:



OH MY GOD!
you are the first person i have come accross to have the same phobia as me...cant stand them...completely freak me out:eek:

Mookins
09-04-2010, 04:58 PM
Anyone doing Butterflies this year? Any good cheap places to get them?


have been asked by hubby to see of these are bought as crystalist (sp) as our chameleon LOVES them

x x

funtoplay
09-04-2010, 05:00 PM
Amazon does a kit! they send you a net, once the net arrives you can send off for your caterpillars. It is amazing!!!!

Julia

singlewiththree
09-04-2010, 05:01 PM
I think they are bought as eggs that hatch into caterpillars I remember nursery having them and its about £20 so thought of doing some this year.

Mookins
09-04-2010, 05:04 PM
my skin is crawling.. thanks for the info x x

singlewiththree
09-04-2010, 05:10 PM
amazon is only £12.49 I've sent the link to Pauline so that the forum can get a % then will post the link, I'm going to wait until its in the forum shop :)

Pauline
09-04-2010, 05:13 PM
Found it Paula! :thumbsup:

Graham will add it to the shop in the next few minutes (or so!) and will add the link when he has done it.

Really kind of you, thanks for thinking of the Forum :thumbsup:

Graham
09-04-2010, 05:19 PM
Hi Paula

Thanks for telling us about this.

I have put it in the forum shop so if anyone wants to get it you can buy it there and the forum will get a commission which we use to help fund the running costs of the forum.

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/childminding-21/detail/B00000ISC5

TheBTeam
09-04-2010, 05:21 PM
We did them last year and have the net cage and bits, it was absolutely amazing to watch and not very expensive, once you have bought the kit you can by more caterpillars from the place for another go.

babs
09-04-2010, 05:29 PM
i was going to order one of theses .but yesterday all hell broke loose... mindee was in garden playing away, came in screaming took me a while to settle her when i asked her what the problem was she took me outside and started to point then scream some more .... It was a Ladybird.... so i picked it up to show her well more screams, so got a clear plastic pot put in ladybird and some grass in and just said that's its home now it wont hurt you... well she kept creeping and looking then came running in again screaming it had flown out the pot landed on grass:laughing: :laughing: ... so don't think its a good idea, but then again it might be oh not sure now...( her sister hates bugs any bugs especially dragonflies) what would you do do you think it might help her... no help for her sister shes 20 now:laughing: :laughing:

singlewiththree
10-04-2010, 02:39 PM
Thanks Graham. I've ordered mine now through the shop link :clapping:

Pauline
10-04-2010, 03:15 PM
Thanks Graham. I've ordered mine now through the shop link :clapping:


Thank you Paula, you are a star :clapping:

It's a small world
10-04-2010, 04:14 PM
OH MY GOD!
you are the first person i have come accross to have the same phobia as me...cant stand them...completely freak me out:eek:

Never used to then when I started going out with now dh he took to a butterfly house being dim I thought they would be behind glass ohhh no free flying around you :eek: then one the size of my hand flew right in front of me totally shocked and freaked me out . Took 5seconds to get round the place :eek: now I can't bear being near them .that was 12years ago. We had one in the place I used to work before becoming a cm and as soon as I heard someone say one was in the room I left until it had been taken out. People thought it was funny I didnt:panic:

Mookins
10-04-2010, 04:58 PM
Never used to then when I started going out with now dh he took to a butterfly house being dim I thought they would be behind glass ohhh no free flying around you :eek: then one the size of my hand flew right in front of me totally shocked and freaked me out . Took 5seconds to get round the place :eek: now I can't bear being near them .that was 12years ago. We had one in the place I used to work before becoming a cm and as soon as I heard someone say one was in the room I left until it had been taken out. People thought it was funny I didnt:panic:

bless your heart...do you get the cold sweats, shakes and the sick feeling?
that and my heart races and i sweaty palms....am coping really well in the garden am at the stage where i can stand really still and not run in the house screaming although i still feel like im gonna pass out.....last year i was in the garden screamin the place down as I thought one had landed on my top...it was a sticker:blush:
x x

The Juggler
10-04-2010, 06:39 PM
bless your heart...do you get the cold sweats, shakes and the sick feeling?
that and my heart races and i sweaty palms....am coping really well in the garden am at the stage where i can stand really still and not run in the house screaming although i still feel like im gonna pass out.....last year i was in the garden screamin the place down as I thought one had landed on my top...it was a sticker:blush:
x x

a CM I know was like this with caterpillers, worms etc. She had NLP (neuro linguistic programming) similar to hypno and is almost completely fine with them now.

funfunfun
10-04-2010, 06:48 PM
Hi Paula

Thanks for telling us about this.

I have put it in the forum shop so if anyone wants to get it you can buy it there and the forum will get a commission which we use to help fund the running costs of the forum.

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/childminding-21/detail/B00000ISC5

Just ordered one via the link :)

cant wait to get it

beccas
10-04-2010, 06:50 PM
i have a life cycle of butterfly stamp set fro schoolsurplus it goes with my hungry catapillar story sack..... mightget this set but then again we have done ants and worms and they were horrid...yuk

It's a small world
10-04-2010, 06:58 PM
bless your heart...do you get the cold sweats, shakes and the sick feeling?
that and my heart races and i sweaty palms....am coping really well in the garden am at the stage where i can stand really still and not run in the house screaming although i still feel like im gonna pass out.....last year i was in the garden screamin the place down as I thought one had landed on my top...it was a sticker:blush:
x x

:laughing: sorry shouldn't laugh but did like that :laughing: well done you being able to stand in the garden. sadly I can't even be in the garden with them I feel sick panicky ( feeling shaky n queezy just talking about them :panic:) not sure how I'm going to cope as this is my first summer minding:panic: guess we'll be doing lots of 'let's go in the house / let's go out of the house :rolleyes: I guess I'll have to try and conquer my fear or go out in large areas where I can run far !!!!! Mmmmm

Tigertots
11-04-2010, 01:32 PM
I use this company Have been very good and the children love watching them grow and change

www.insectlore-europe.com

Ripeberry
11-04-2010, 03:46 PM
I don't mind most insects, I even pick up BIG spiders :eek: . But I do hate one creature and that is Maggots! :panic: :(
It all started when I was about 11yrs old and I collected some catterpilars from the garden to watch them hatch into butterflies, but all that came out were maggots.
They must have been attacked by that wasp or is it a fly, that lays its eggs in catterpilars.
YUKITY...YUCK...YUCK!
But I'm sure the ones from the kits are safe :)

Graham
12-04-2010, 07:58 AM
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