Why can't a butterfly be a caterpillar?

A caller pillar could become a butterfly but the reverse is impossible due to the current biological setting which is optimized to the present evolutionary scenario. read more

Before hatching, when a caterpillar is still developing inside its egg, it grows an imaginal disc for each of the adult body parts it will need as a mature butterfly or moth—discs for its eyes, for its wings, its legs and so on. read more

All about the Butterfly Life Cycle with LOTS of cool life cycle pictures and a coloring page too! Learn about the butterfly life cycle stages and see pictures of the eggs, caterpillars, chrysalis and more. read more

And just when it finds a good plant with plenty of leaves, 200 other caterpillars find the same plant. The food is soon gone and it must go on a long trek to find another. And just when it seems living is as difficult as it can possibly be, but its coping and getting by, change begins. It doesn’t understand why or how. read more