Butterfly Life Cycle

A butterfly is an insect that comes in all different colours and size.Of course with a living thing there is a life cycle. Butterfly life cycle begins as a tiny egg.

Egg

As I said before a butterfly begins as an oval or round looking egg.The coolest thing about the egg is that if you look close enough that you can actually see the tiny caterpillar and the cool pattern of the body inside of the egg.There are many different types of egg shapes some are round some are oval they can also be ribbed while others may have other features. The egg shape depends on the type of butterfly that laid the egg.The eggs are usually laid on the leaves of the plant.So if you are trying to search for these tiny eggs then make sure to look. You will have to take some time and examine quite a few leaves in order to find some. 

caterpillars

When the egg first hatches lots of people thing that a butterfly would come out but that is not how it works.so in a butterfly's life there are four stages and this is only the second stage.Butterfly larvae are actually what we call caterpillars.Caterpillars don't do very much and they don't stay in this stage for very long all they do is eat so they can get nice and big.When they are born they will get to work and start eating the left that they were born on.This is really important so the mother butterfly knows where to lay her egg so she know that the caterpillars hatch eat eat the right left.Caterpillars start of as really small big by eat they can grow really fast.when they eat they instantly start growing and expanding.There skin does not stretch or grow so they get bigger by shedding their skin so they grow by molting.

Pupa

Pupa is the third stage pupa is one of the coolest stages of a butterfly's life. As soon as a caterpillar has reached their full length and weight they form themselves into a pupa or people call them chrysalis.From the outside of the pupa it looks as if the caterpillar may just be resting but the inside is where all of the action is. Inside of the pupa the caterpillar is changing like crazy.Now as most people know caterpillars as short stubby little thing with no wings or anything but little did you know that in the chrysalis with the old body is is really pretty and there remarkable transformation.To become the beautiful parts that make up the butterfly that will emerge.

Hatching

The last part of the butterfly’s life cycle is the adult butterfly and the hatching.Once the caterpillar has done all of its transformations inside of the pupa.If you are lucky you will get to see the caterpillar emerge.When the butterfly first emerges from the chrysalis both of the wings are going to be soft and folded against its body. This is because the butterfly had to fit all its new parts inside of the pupa. When the butterfly has rested after coming out of the pupa it will start to pump blood  into the wings in order to get them working and flapping then they get to fly.Usually within a three or four hour period.The butterfly will master flying and will search for a mate in order to reproduce.   

It is as simple as that I mean it's not that simple but there you go know how and butterfly life cycle works. I hope you indeed reading and I hope you learnt a lot of information about butterflies

By Neve