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Life Cycle of A Butterfly

The life cycle of a butterfly involves metamorphosis from egg to caterpillar, to pupa, and finally to adult butterfly. The female butterfly lays eggs on leaves, which hatch into caterpillars that molt several times as they feed voraciously. After about three weeks, the caterpillar forms a chrysalis and undergoes transformation into a pupa. Eventually, the adult butterfly emerges with long legs, antennae, and wings to fly with and mate or lay eggs, completing the cycle.

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Life Cycle of A Butterfly

The life cycle of a butterfly involves metamorphosis from egg to caterpillar, to pupa, and finally to adult butterfly. The female butterfly lays eggs on leaves, which hatch into caterpillars that molt several times as they feed voraciously. After about three weeks, the caterpillar forms a chrysalis and undergoes transformation into a pupa. Eventually, the adult butterfly emerges with long legs, antennae, and wings to fly with and mate or lay eggs, completing the cycle.

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Life Cycle of a Butterfly As advanced insects, butterfly and moth have a complete lifecycle.

Every butterfly has its distinct textures which often brightly colored wings. From an unattractive caterpillar into an engrossing butterfly requires a long development of metamorphosis. This is a Greek word that means transformation or change in shape. Metamorphosis is a development from an egg to larva, to pupa, and adult butterfly (Imago). In every single transformation involves different stages starting from hatching stage, feeding stage, transition stage and reproductive stage.
Initially, the adult female butterfly lays very tiny eggs in sets of 10 to 100 on the leaf and takes

between five and 10 days to hatch. Consequently on the feeding stage, the caterpillar usually starts looking for food instantaneously. It devours more food than its weight in just a day. As the caterpillar grows, it splits its skin and sheds it about 4 or 5 times. It takes three weeks for the caterpillar (larva) to transform into a pupa during transition stage. The pupa (chrysalis) is suspended under a branch, hidden in leaves or buried underground which is protected inside a coccoon of silk.
Eventually, in the adult stage of butterfly, they have long legs, antennae, and compound eyes. Besides

that, they fly by using their large and colorful wings. The adult's job is to mate and lay eggs. Some species of adult butterflies get energy by feeding on nectar from flowers but many species don't feed at all. Most adult butterflies live only one or two weeks, but some species hibernate during the winter and may live several months.

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