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During the life, a female butterfly lays from 100 to several thousand eggs. From these eggs hatch out tiny, worm like grubs called caterpillar larvae. They begin at once to feed and grow, and as they grow they shed their skins several times. All the caterpillars do during this time is eat and eat-because the food they store away now may have to last them for rest of their lives when they become butterflies. The food is stored as fat, and is used to build up wings, legs, sucking tubes and so on when the caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
At a certain time the caterpillar feels its time for a change, so it spins a little button of silk, to which it clings. It hangs head down, sheds its caterpillar skin. Then it appears as a pupa or chrysalis. The chrysalis clings to the button of silk by a sharp spine at the end of its body.
The pupa of chrysalis may sleep for some weeks or months. During that time it is undergoing a change, so that when it comes out and emerges from its chrysalis skin, it is a butterfly.
At a certain time the caterpillar feels its time for a change, so it spins a little button of silk, to which it clings. It hangs head down, sheds its caterpillar skin. Then it appears as a pupa or chrysalis. The chrysalis clings to the button of silk by a sharp spine at the end of its body.
The pupa of chrysalis may sleep for some weeks or months. During that time it is undergoing a change, so that when it comes out and emerges from its chrysalis skin, it is a butterfly.
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