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All monarch caterpillars look the same, whereas the adults have different abdomen shapes and the male butterflies have to black spots that the females lack. That's why we can distinguish the adult males from the adult females.
If you were to dissect monarch caterpillars, there would be at least one difference. The males have two bright red organs that the females lack, but there is no way of knowing which are male and which are female just by looking at the outside of the caterpillar.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 15y agoThe answer to that is that you don't know if a caterpillar is a male or female, not until it's a butterfly, then, you can tell buy color and wings.
(my theory is you can tell by colors of caterpillars as well, but i am not sure.
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∙ 17y agoThe caterpillar is the pupal stage of the Moth and are indistinguishable from each other until they emerge from their cocoon as a moth.
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∙ 11y agoi think females are much larger than males, or i think males have gray heads and bodies
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∙ 13y agoa girl has pinchers on there backs and a boy doesnt
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∙ 12y agoIf you are looking at the caterpillar from above, no you cannot. But if you took it to a specialist they would probably answer your question whether its a boy or a girl.
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∙ 8y agoYou usually can't tell until they make a chrysalis. Unless you want to dissect them before then.
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If you are looking at the caterpillar from above, no you cannot. But if you took it to a specialist they would probably answer your question whether its a boy or a girl.
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