What is a caterpillar called before being a butterfly?

Before I get the answer that I'm foreseeing, I mean it more like this:





A butterfly is an insect because it has six legs. A caterpillar has more than six legs, so it is not an insect. It morphs into being an insect. What is a caterpillar classified as when it has more than six legs?|||Quite interesting analysis. When the egg hatches out pops a caterpillar. It has six legs and may have a bunch of pseudo legs to help it keep attached to eats leaves etc. As it grows its outer skin doesn't stretch enough to contain the caterpillar so it splits and the caterpillar crawls out of it. This change from on skin size to the next is called an "Instar." When the butterfly completes its last instar, It attaches itself to a suitable foundation and hangs usually upside down and the skin splits for the last time are reveals a chrysalis with the morphing butterfly inside. In its time, the chrysalis splits open and the butterfly emerges. It takes several hours for the wings to expand and dry before the butterfly can fly.|||Caterpillars have 6 legs and then pro legs (they are fake suction cup feet) on the abdomen. The caterpillar goes like this caterpillar -%26gt; pupa -%26gt; adult. So if its a moth the pupa will be a "cocoon" if the caterpillar is a butterfly the pupa is a "crystalist"|||The catterpillar makes a coccoon around itself; the butterfly emerges from the coccoon and (after sitting for a while to let its wings unfurl and dry out) flies away.



Check this link; http://lifecycle.onenessbecomesus.com/pu鈥?/a>|||Butterflies undergo a complete metamorphosis while going through four different stages. This article explains the transformation that butterflies go through - http://www.butterfly-gardens.com/butterf鈥?/a>|||BUTTERPILLAR|||Ah, but the caterpillar does have only


six legs if you look closely.|||i searched on google it took me to a ''backyard'' page thing and it just said it was an insect