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There are four main steps to the monarch butterflies life cycle.
1: Egg stage 3-4 days
2: Caterpillar (larvae) stage 10-16 days
3: Chrysalis (pupa) stage 10-14 days
4: Adult butterfly stage 2-5 weeks
EGG STAGE: It takes up to four days for the butterfly to get big enough to eat its way out of its egg. The eggs are football shaped and have little lines going up and down the egg the egg is covered with a hard layer over it to protect the larva from getting hurt. Also if you see a black dot on top of the egg it the head of the larva.
CATERPILLAR STAGE: This is when the butterfly is in lava stage this word means its the growing stage of the incect. A caterpillar has six eyes but there vision is very poor so they use there antennas to guide them, they also have lots of little legs with hooks on the ends of each one to help them climb up milkweed. The caterpillar is broken up into three parts the head, thorax, and the abdomen. There skin is like a shell it does not grow but the biger it gets it sheds ts skin and eats it because it is full of vidimans and minarials it does this five times before it goes into chrysalis stage.
PUPA STAGE: This is the stage when the caterpillar becomes an adult or butterfly. At this stage of the butterflies life cycle is when the wings and organs are formed, the butterfly breaks down its cells to do this. The chrysalis starts out green the turns clear and you can see the orange and black on the butterfly a couple days before it haches.
ADULT BUTTERFLY STAGE: The butterfly is broken into three parts the head, thorax, and abdomen just like when it is in caterpillar stage. Now the butterfliys life cycle is compleet all thats left is for the butterfly to find a mate and lay eggs to reproduce. The butterflies to not reproduces until 3-8 days after it becomes a butterfly. Once a butterfly finds a mate they stay together for up to 16 hours and then they separate and the female lays eggs right away. after they lay there eggs they go looking for a new mate and this process is repeated until the butterfly dies.
That is the complete life cycle of a butterfly.
1: Egg stage 3-4 days
2: Caterpillar (larvae) stage 10-16 days
3: Chrysalis (pupa) stage 10-14 days
4: Adult butterfly stage 2-5 weeks
EGG STAGE: It takes up to four days for the butterfly to get big enough to eat its way out of its egg. The eggs are football shaped and have little lines going up and down the egg the egg is covered with a hard layer over it to protect the larva from getting hurt. Also if you see a black dot on top of the egg it the head of the larva.
CATERPILLAR STAGE: This is when the butterfly is in lava stage this word means its the growing stage of the incect. A caterpillar has six eyes but there vision is very poor so they use there antennas to guide them, they also have lots of little legs with hooks on the ends of each one to help them climb up milkweed. The caterpillar is broken up into three parts the head, thorax, and the abdomen. There skin is like a shell it does not grow but the biger it gets it sheds ts skin and eats it because it is full of vidimans and minarials it does this five times before it goes into chrysalis stage.
PUPA STAGE: This is the stage when the caterpillar becomes an adult or butterfly. At this stage of the butterflies life cycle is when the wings and organs are formed, the butterfly breaks down its cells to do this. The chrysalis starts out green the turns clear and you can see the orange and black on the butterfly a couple days before it haches.
ADULT BUTTERFLY STAGE: The butterfly is broken into three parts the head, thorax, and abdomen just like when it is in caterpillar stage. Now the butterfliys life cycle is compleet all thats left is for the butterfly to find a mate and lay eggs to reproduce. The butterflies to not reproduces until 3-8 days after it becomes a butterfly. Once a butterfly finds a mate they stay together for up to 16 hours and then they separate and the female lays eggs right away. after they lay there eggs they go looking for a new mate and this process is repeated until the butterfly dies.
That is the complete life cycle of a butterfly.