larvo stage. As o larvo, or coterpillor, the future butterfly eats as much as possible. As it grows, it sheds it outer skin, or exoskeleton.
After o few weeks, the caterpillar enters the
next stage of its life, the chrysalis stage. In the chrysalis, the coterpillar will liquefy into o soup of living cells.
Then, it will reorganize into o butterfy and he
metomorphosis is complete. In loter parts of the chrysolis stoge, you can see the forming butterfly through
When the butterfy emerges from the chrysalis, it
pumps its wings to send blood through them so thot it con Py Mos butterflies only lIve a couple of weeks, just enough time to drink flower nector and to mate.