2nd October 2019

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What is it called when a butterfly comes out of a cocoon?

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Now, as most people know, caterpillars are short, stubby and have no wings at all. Within the chrysalis the old body parts of the caterpillar are undergoing a remarkable transformation, called 'metamorphosis,' to become the beautiful parts that make up the butterfly that will emerge.

Similarly one may ask, what are the 3 stages of a butterfly?

There are four stages in the metamorphosis of butterflies and moths: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

Egg. Eggs are laid on plants by the adult female butterfly.
Caterpillar: The Feeding Stage. The next stage is the larva.
Pupa: The Transition Stage.
Adult: The Reproductive Stage.

What is the difference between a cocoon and a chrysalis?

Pupa and chrysalis have the same meaning: the transformation stage between the larva and the adult. While pupa can refer to this naked stage in either a butterfly or moth, chrysalis is strictly used for the butterfly pupa. A cocoon is the silk casing that a moth caterpillar spins around it before it turns into a pupa.

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How long does it take for a butterfly to emerge from a chrysalis?

Position the chrysalis so that the emerging butterfly can easily crawl onto a wall of the butterfly house. Butterflies will emerge from chrysalises in approximately 7 to 10 days. It will take them an hour or two to dry off and stretch their wings. After wings harden, butterflies are ready to fly.

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What is a chrysalis of the butterfly?

The chrysalis generally refers to a butterfly pupa although the term may be misleading as there are some moths whose pupae resembles a chrysalis, e.g.: the plume winged moths of the family Pterophoridae and some geometrid moths. A cocoon is a silk case that moths, and sometimes other insects, spin around the pupa.

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What is the butterfly kiss?

To give a butterfly kiss, all you have to do is move your face close to your partner's, so that your eyes are almost touching, and flutter your eyelids rapidly, so your partner feels like he or she is being kissed by the delicate wings of a butterfly.

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How long does it take a cocoon to turn into a butterfly?

Butterflies make a chrysalis, while other insects—like the tobacco hornworm caterpillar—makes a cocoon and becomes a moth. They will stay and transform over time into a butterfly or a moth. Most butterflies and moths stay inside of their chrysalis or cocoon for between five to 21 days.

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Do butterflies come out of cocoons or chrysalis?

Butterflies hatch from a chrysalis, a life stage made of a hardened protein. A cocoon is spun from silk and surrounds the pupa of many moths.

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What goes on inside a chrysalis?

One day, the caterpillar stops eating, hangs upside down from a twig or leaf and spins itself a silky cocoon or molts into a shiny chrysalis. Within its protective casing, the caterpillar radically transforms its body, eventually emerging as a butterfly or moth. What happens inside a chrysalis or cocoon?

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What do butterflies like?

Most adult butterflies drink nectar from flowers through their tongues, which function much like straws. A minority of butterflies almost never visits flowers, instead gaining sustenance from tree sap, rotting animal matter, and other organic material. Butterfly caterpillars almost all eat plant matter.

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Do all caterpillars turn into butterflies?

The word caterpillar refers to the larval stage of the butterflies and moths, so all caterpillars become either a butterfly or a moth. There are, however, some larval insects that look very similar to caterpillars. The most likely to be encountered are the larvae of sawflies, which are actually wasps and not flies.

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What eats a butterfly?

Some of the common predators of butterflies include but are certainly not limited to: wasps, ants, parasitic flies, birds, snakes, toads, rats, lizards, dragonflies and even monkeys! A few of the other animals that are constantly adding butterflies onto their menu list are frogs and spiders.

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How does a butterfly mate?

How do butterflies mate? Male butterflies find females by sight, and use chemicals called pheromones at close range. The male passes a sperm packet called a spermatorphore to the female. The sperm then fertilize each egg as it passes down the female's egg-laying tube.

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How long is a caterpillar in a cocoon?

This can range from about seven days to more than a year, but for a large number of species it is less than 30 days. The well-known monarch butterfly, for example, spends between nine and 14 days in a chrysalis, while the painted lady butterfly spends only seven to 10 days in the chrysalis.

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How long does it take for a cocoon to hatch?

The process from egg to butterfly is weather dependent and also depends on the regional climate. It can take about four weeks in the peak of the summer in warmer climates. The egg takes 5 to 10 days, the larva/caterpillar and pupa/chrysalis each take about 10 to 14 days.

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How long does it take for the life cycle of a butterfly?

It grows inside the egg for about 4 days. It then munches milkweed and grows as a monarch caterpillar (larvae) for about 2 more weeks. The caterpillar's life inside the chrysalis (pupa) lasts about 10 days and its wonderful life as an adult butterfly lasts from 2 – 6 weeks.

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How long does a butterfly?

By marking butterflies then recapturing or sighting them later, scientists gain information on how long butterflies can live. An average butterfly species has an adult life span of two weeks or less. For example one butterfly studied in Costa Rica had a life expectancy of about two days, and live ten days at the most.

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How many wings does a butterfly have?

A butterfly has four wings – two on each side. They are broken into two forewings and two hindwings. The wings are attached to the second and third thoracic segments (the meso- and meta-thorax). When a butterfly is in flight, the wings move up and down in a figure-eight pattern.

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What does a butterfly looks like?

Monarch butterfly feeding on nectar from a flower. Butterflies are common insects that have a worm-like body and highly colorful wings. The body and wings are covered with tiny scales that are best seen through a microscope. Moths look similar to butterflies and they are closely related.

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What is the pupa stage of a moth?

The life cycle or life history of Butterflies and Moths is:- The Egg or Ovum, The Caterpillar or Larva, The Chrysalis or Pupa and finally the Adult Butterfly or Moth (the Imago). The true legs are segmented with joints and become the walking legs in the adult butterfly or moth.

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How many eggs are laid by a butterfly?

Inside is a tiny caterpillar, but you'll have to look closely to see it since the eggs are very small – only about the size of a pinhead! A female Monarch will lay one egg at a time, up to 500! They lay so many because only about one in 20 make it to adulthood.

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How does a caterpillar form a chrysalis?

It uses a hook-covered appendage called a cremaster to attach itself to this pad. It twists around, embedding its cremaster firmly in the silk. Then, it sheds its skin, revealing the chrysalis. The chrysalis hangs upside down from the cremaster until the butterfly is ready to emerge, or eclose.

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What animals go through complete metamorphosis?

About 10% of insects go through an incomplete metamorphosis. They do not have a pupal form -- these include dragonflies, grasshoppers and cockroaches. These insects have three stages in their life cycle: egg: unborn stage.

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