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Butterfly
Many people believe that butterfly has a very short age.
In fact, adult butterfly can live for a week or even a year,
it depends on the species. Most of the species on the
level of larvae live quite longer and those can be
dormant on the level of cocoon or egg in order to survive
in the cold weather
Metamorphosis
Butterfly is an insect which has perfect
metamorphosis. Perfect metamorphosis has four steps
of growth in its life cycle.
Metamorphosis is a process from worm into new
animal (perfect phase) that is butterfly. The process is
quite long but simple.
Laying butterfly eggs
First, it starts from egg which is put on the leave in order
the leave can be the food for the worm until it is adult
and becomes a cocoon and in some days it will become
new butterfly.
Stage one : The Egg
 The female butterfly will lay her eggs under a
protective leaf that will later becaome her baby’s first
meal
 The butterfly eggs will take about two to three weeks
to hatch
 When the butterfly egg hatches, a caterpillar also
known as, a larva will come out
 The caterpillar hatches through the egg by waving its
head back and forth pulling its body out slowly
Stage two : The Larva
 The caterpillar will eat about thirty or more leaves, and
grow to 3000 times it original size, before the next
stage of its life cycle
 They have strong jaws for chewing leaves :
 Their own egg, is the caterpillars first meal
 After they eat their egg, they will eat the leaf that their
mother had laid them on
Caterpillars : Inching Along
 Before “inching along” to the third stage of the life
cycle, the caterpillar must go through a molting
process :
 It stops feeding
 It spins a small slk pad ; skin will start to split
 It crawls forward leaving old skin behind
 It starts feeding again, beginning with the nutrient filled
skin they have just shed
 The growing stage betweeen molts is called an instar.

 By the fourth molt the caterpillar is almost ready for

stage three
Stage three : the pupa
The caterpillar will :
 Find a safe strong spot, like a leaf or twig, to hang from
 Start squirting silk, moving from side to side, creating
a silk mat with a tiny knob called a button,the
caterpillar waill hang from this button after shedding
its skin for the last time
 A hard case called the chrysalis forms around the
caterpillar for protection while is preparing to become
a butterfly
Stage four : The chrysalis
 Inside of the chrysalis the caterpillar or pupa, becomes
a green liquid
 The green liquid begins to form butterfly parts and the
chrysalis becomes more clear
 A fully clear chrysalis means a butterfly is ready to
energe : come out
 A bout three weeks later the chrysalis splits, and the
butterfly can make its way out
Ta – Da
 Now the butterfly is free to travel by air.
 The butterfly will drink nectar, instead of chewing
leaves
 Bad news: the average butterfly will only live for about
two weeks
 Good news : before the butterfly dies it will lay new
eggs.. Out will come new caterpillars and eventually