The Life Cycle of a Butterfly Science for Kids

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The Life Cycle of a Butterfly Science for Kids

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foreign they are some of the most magical insects you can see in the environment their wings look like beautiful artworks and they come in all the colors of the rainbow but did you know that the beautiful butterflies you see actually used to be caterpillars now you might be wondering how did they change from tiny Wrigley worm looking insect to stunning butterfly well you're about to find out the life cycle of butterfly has four stages it all begins when female butterfly lays her eggs inside these eggs caterpillars begin to grow once an egg is ready it hatches and out comes lava also known as caterpillar the caterpillar leaves its egg behind finds leaf and starts eating and eating and eating you might have seen caterpillar in garden munching away as caterpillar grows its skin becomes too tight for its growing body the caterpillar sheds this old skin because underneath there is new bigger skin which is much more comfortable this process of shedding skin is called molting now it's time for the caterpillar to begin changing into pupa the pupa stage is pretty uneventful because all they really do is hang upside down in cocoon cocoon is also called chrysalis the pupa needs to stay really still predators don't spot it wriggling around and eat it for dinner this is the stage where the caterpillar begins to grow its wings the last stage is when the adult butterfly breaks free it slowly comes out of its cocoon and spreads its beautiful Wings getting ready to take flight once it's ready it will fly off and eventually lay its own eggs starting the cycle all over again as you can see the caterpillar goes through number of changes before it reaches the final stage of being butterfly this spectacular physical transformation is called metamorphosis metamorphosis is said to have occurred when an animal transforms from its young form into its adult form the Frog also goes through metamorphosis it transforms from an egg to tadpole then slowly grows arms and legs and transforms into an adult frog can you think of any other animals or insects that go through special stages to grow into an adult what about you have you gone through some physical changes since you were born