Life Cycle of a Butterfly (Detail--)

I am here to tell you about butterflies. Some of you may be wondering what I can tell about butterflies. Some of you may know what is butterflies. But, do you know it in detail? So let me start telling YOU!

eggs---

Butterflies have six legs and are a type of insect. Everybody knows what is the life cycle of the butterflies right? The life cycle of the butterflies consist of 4 parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult.

Eggs are laid by a female butterfly and fertilized by a male butterfly. Butterflies eggs have a hard-ridged outer layer of shell, called chorion. The line has a coating of wax to prevent it from drying. The eggs are usually found behind leaves. Do you know why they can stick to the leaves? That's because there is a special glue, the same glue produced by a pupa.

caterpillar---

About 5 days later, the egg hatch into a caterpillar. Caterpillar spend their time on searching fresh leaves and eating leaves. Almost every caterpillar are herbivorous, but some of the caterpillars eat insects, like the Spalgis epius and the Liphyra brassolis. Some of the caterpillar give out bad smell to defend theirselves. Some of the colours of the butterfly are black, yellow and orange.


Pupa---

Pupa is also known as chrysalis. When a caterpillar is fully grown, it begins to ''wandering'' and become a pupa. Most of the pupa are found under leaves. This is the transformation stage. Inside the pupa, the caterpillar is changing into a butterfly.


Butterfly---










An adult butterfly does not live long, it only lives for a short while. Butterflies cannot eat, but they only drink through their straw-like proboscis. The butterflies can fly, mate and reproduce.