1. Butterfly
Lifecycles

2. Stage 1: The Egg Butterfly moms lay eggs on leaves.
They can lay up to 300 eggs
The egg stage lasts about 6 days.

3. Stage 2: Caterpillar Begins eating immediately First eats own eggshell
Eats lots of leaves
Lasts about 11 days

4. Caterpillar Growth
Caterpillars grow very fast. If you grew that fast when you were a baby, you would weigh 8 tons. That’s as much as a big dinosaur.

5. Stage 3: Pupa
The caterpillar become a pupa covered by a hard shell called a chrysalis.
The pupa hangs from the stem of a plant.
This change takes about a week.

6. Stage 4: Adult The caterpillars’ organs and body parts dissolve.
The butterfly emerges with wings folded.
It pumps blood into its wings.
It is now ready to fly.
Butterfly lifecycle

7. Metamorphosis
A butterfly’s life is divided into four stages. Its body changes a lot.
All the changes the butterfly goes through in its life are called its metamorphosis.

8. Fantastic Butterflies
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