Insect lore, - does anybody know this brand ?

Spelzeug-guenstig has got a new brand ( New for me) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

They remind me of some of Safari's products, but MUCH cheaper .
The tubes , however, can't possibly be of much lower quality than the insect TOOBS from Safari

Yes, they sell educational products over here for kids learning about insects People can order Painted Lady eggs and the kids can watch them grow and eventually transform into butterflies. They have netted butterfly containers too, not sure what you call them, I have several from them. As you found of course they make models as a visual aid as well. I think I have the Monarch butterfly set here - I used it as part of a presentation since I used to raise Monarchs

WOW !!! That is interesting

Never saw before. But only insects

I noticed them a little while ago on MPV as well, around the same time as Terra by Battat popped up there. Yet MPV sells less different sets for a higher price than Spielzeug Günstig. They look rather nice, actually

I have the frog set!

Would you like pics?

Anne from Norway wrote:

Would you like pics?

Yes ! Yes, please

Here you go! They are deifintely toys, but quite cute, and supposedly educational. My two year old Edvin puts the eggs in my "coffee" that he makes for me, probably thinking it's sugar, so they haven't quite serves their educational purpose yet!


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Ohhh! They are truely lovely

Much nicer than I would have thought

...and then they can be used as sugar too

Thankyou for the great photos

PS, - I will have to ask Óliver Zell ( Owner of Sielzeug-guenstig) for all the information he can find about the brand , so we can get it in TAI

Nice figurines :)

As you would guess I am familiar with Insect Lore. I highly recommend their life cycle sets, but the insect 'tube' sets are just repainted knock-offs of figures from Safari and K&M International toobs/tubes. Nothing interesting there, unfortunately.

bmathison1972 wrote:

As you would guess I am familiar with Insect Lore. I highly recommend their life cycle sets, but the insect 'tube' sets are just repainted knock-offs of figures from Safari and K&M International toobs/tubes. Nothing interesting there, unfortunately.

Thankyou for the info