Have you ever wondered how butterflies are formed? I will provide you with information as to how butterflies are formed.
A butterfly starts its life as a round, oval or cylindrical egg. The shape of the egg depends on the type of butterfly it is. The butterfly lays its eggs at the bottom of a leaf.
The butterfly chooses the leaf to lay its eggs on. It chooses a leaf that the caterpillar will be able too eat when it hatches. If the butterfly chooses a leaf the caterpillar won't be able to eat. the caterpillar will die.
For butterfly eggs to hatch, it can take about four weeks in the peak of the summer in warmer climates.The eggs takes 5 to 10 days. Once the eggs has hatched the caterpillar will then eat the leaf it was born on.
One day when the caterpillar stops eating it then hangs upside down from a twig or leaf and turns itself a silky pupa or molts into a shiny chrysalis.
Once the caterpillar has transformed into a butterfly it comes out of the chrysalis/pupa before it can start flying it needs too pump blood in it's wings because the wings are flat against its body.
Next the butterfly will mate and lay round oval cylindrical eggs and the cycle will start all over again.
I hope I have given you enough information about how butterflies are formed.
Kia Ora Kitahna. Thank you for sharing your explanation writing. You provided an excellent explanation on how butterflies are formed. Remember, the process of change that the butterfly undergoes is called metamorphosis.
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