Our Painted Lady Butterfly Culture includes 5 larvae in an 8-oz cup containing enough food to sustain the larvae to maturity. It is important to be well prepared if you are ordering painted lady eggs. Newly hatched larvae are tiny and will dehydrate rapidly. First, we recommend you have experience raising painted lady butterflies, and second, you should be willing to accept a higher mortality rate for larvae than the mortality rate associated with other life stages.

Note: We recommend beginning with eggs only under certain conditions.