Butterfly is an insect and has 4 stages in it's life cycle.
The adult female butterfly lays it's eggs on the leaves.
It takes about 3-7 days for a egg to hatch and produce larva.
Larva is also called as Caterpillar.
As soon as the larva comes out of the egg
First it eats it's egg shell
Then, it starts to eat the leaves.
The larva grows and undergoes a process called as molting to form Pupa. It takes about 2-5 weeks for larva to become Pupa.
Molting is a process of shedding of outer skin. In the entire life cycle of a butterfly it happens 5 times.
Between formation of larva and pupa, molting happens 4 times. The butterfly keeps growing in size after each molting.
After 4th molting the larva stops growing and forms a protective layer around it. This stage is called pupa stage or chrysalis.
It takes about 15 days for a pupa to become an adult butterfly. The 5th and the final molting occurs at the end of pupa stage forming the adult butterfly.
As soon as the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis it's
wings are small
wings are wet
The butterfly pumps fluid to it's wings to make the wings bigger and stronger.
It takes about 2 hours for a new born butterfly to become a fully grown strong butterfly.
The changes that happen during the entire life cycle of an animal is called metamorphosis. It is also called as transformation.
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