Butterflies are beautiful creatures, you will usually find them flying around flowers in a garden. Do you know how a butterfly is formed? I will provide you with interesting information about the life cycle of a butterfly.
A butterfly's life starts as a round, oval, or cylindrical egg. The shape of the egg depends on the type of butterfly. Butterflies will lay their eggs on the bottom of a leaf.
The butterfly choses the leaf to lay it’s eggs on. It choses the leaf that the caterpillar can start eating when it hatches. If it chooses a leaf that the caterpillar won’t be able to eat, the caterpillar will die.
After ten to fourteen days the caterpillar hatches from the egg. In the warmer weather the caterpillar will hatch after five to ten days. The time it takes to hatch depends on the climate. The caterpillar starts eating the leaf it was born on immediately. For around two weeks the caterpillar eats and eats and eats.
One day the caterpillar stops eating and starts to form into a pupa or a chrysalis. You may think that nothing is happening, but inside the caterpillar is going through a stage called metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is when a creature transforms from one form to another. The caterpillar will be transforming into a butterfly.
When it emerges from the chrysalis it will no longer be a caterpillar, it will be a butterfly. When the butterfly comes out it’s wings will be flat against its body, so the butterfly will have to pump blood into its wings. The blood helps the wings spread out because it has oxygen in it. Once the butterfly has pumped blood into its wings it will start flying.
Next the butterfly will mate. After mating it will lay round, oval or cylindrical eggs and the cycle will start all over again.
Hi Shaima. I love your detailed explanation on how butterflies are formed. I like the way you explained what metamorphosis means. My only suggestion would be to consider using diagrams as well in your explanation writing.
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