In the case of a butterfly, the pupa is inside the chrysalis (other insects may spin cocoons or pupate in the soil) until the adult emerges. Adults mate and lay eggs. An insect with incomplete ...

Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a kid—a wriggly ... In their caterpillar stage, butterflies use silk for spinning tethers to protect themselves from falls, tying up leaf ...

The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage of the monarch butterfly ...

At this early stage, almost all babies and offspring ... Butterflies also go through a lot of changes during their life cycle.A female butterfly lays her eggs on a leaf out of which hatches ...