Thursday, November 24, 2011

How long is each stage of a caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly?

My kids caught a caterpillar in a bug aquarium yesterday, and this morning we noticed that it had started forming its chrysalis hanging from one of the leaves in the container. How long will it take before it becomes a butterfly? Is there anything we should or shouldn't do to help it along? Food? Water? When should we be prepared to release it as it becomes a butterfly?|||After awhile, the caterpillars attach themselves head down to a convenient twig, they shed their outer skin and begin the transformation into a pupa (or chrysalis), a process which is completed in a matter of hours.


The pupa resembles a waxy, jade vase and becomes increasingly transparent as the process progresses. The caterpillar completes the miraculous transformation into a beautiful adult butterfly in about two weeks.


You can see photos of the entire process of a monarch butterfly emerging from its chrysalis at http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/butterflyp鈥?/a>





Birth of the Butterflies %26amp; Feeding, Observing and Releasing the Butterflies


http://www.butterfly-gifts.com/butterfly鈥?/a>|||i think 4 days

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