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Insect Lore

Butterflies delivered by mail for children, families, and schools. Shafter, California. Runs on Shopify Plus.

Insect Lore is a Shafter, California brand selling butterflies delivered by mail for children, families, and schools on Shopify Plus. Its store lists 130 products, mostly butterflies, caterpillar refills and ladybugs, priced from $3 to $60. It sells direct and wholesale and sells on Amazon. It employs 1 to 10 people and runs 16 apps from the Shopify App Store across 8 categories. It spends about $1K to $1.5K a month on those apps and added 11 in the last year.

The store

Products listed
130
Counted on the storefront
Typical price
$3 to $60
Most products fall in this range
BUTTERFLIES22CATERPILLAR REFILLS21LADYBUGS16Ants5LIVE BUTTERFLY KITS5Greeting Card2

Product types as Insect Lore files them in its own catalogue.

What Insect Lore runs on Shopify

16 apps from the Shopify App Store, across 8 categories.

Other4Search, upsell & discovery3Product reviews2Email & SMS marketing2Loyalty, store credit & gift cards2Page building1Helpdesk1Subscriptions1

Estimated app spend: about $1K to $1.5K a month. 11 apps added in the last year.

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Counted from the Shopify App Store. A name shows only for an app our own visit to the storefront saw running, or to signed-in members. how we count.

Where Insect Lore sells

Direct, insectlore.comAmazonWholesale

Competitors

  1. Nature's Workshop Plus

    both sell science kits to families and classrooms

  2. both sell hands-on science kits to schools

  3. both sell hands-on science kits

  4. both sell hands-on kids kits

  5. Stirlingkit

    both sell science toys

  6. both sell to teachers and kids

  7. Womple Studios

    both sell activity kits for kids

  8. both sell hands-on learning

  9. both sell DIY kits

  10. both sell kids craft and activity kits

how we pick competitors

What apps does Insect Lore use on Shopify?

Insect Lore runs 16 apps from the Shopify App Store across 8 categories: Page building, Helpdesk, Product reviews, Email & SMS marketing, Loyalty, store credit & gift cards, Other, Search, upsell & discovery, Subscriptions.

Who are Insect Lore's competitors?

The Shopify brands closest to Insect Lore are Nature's Workshop Plus, Pitsco Education, CrunchLabs, I'mTheChefToo and Stirlingkit.

Updated 2026-10-22. Method notes and every source: how we count →