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Butterflies do not care for their young as other animals do. They lay eggs on plants that their offspring can eat and that is the end of their care. Blue Morpho butterflies lay eggs on several plants including the pea plant family the caterpillars prefer.
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Patience Truchot
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∙ 12y agoButterflies do not care for their young at all. After the eggs are laid the butterfly either leaves or most die afterwards. The eggs hatch into caterpillars and the caterpillars in turn eat the leaf on which they hatched, and continue to feed on the plant. Until the time they build a cocoon then do through complete metamorphosis and become a butterfly.
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∙ 16y agoThey don't, the mother just lays the eggs and flies off, when they hatch they have to fend for themselves.
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∙ 9y agoButterflies do not care for their young ones. The only role an adult butterfly will play is to lay the eggs on a plant where the larva can feed and leaves them.
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∙ 14y agoButterflies lay their eggs on a plant that their larva can eat. Then the butterflies fly away. They never see them after that.
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∙ 9y agoThe extent of a butterfly caring for their young is to lay their eggs on a plant their offspring can eat. Monarch Butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed.
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∙ 10y agoit takes care of them
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you should let it go on it own it cant survive when a human takes care of it
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Do jaguars take care of their offspring?
A female and male jaguar may take care of its young for up to four years.
How do you take care of butterflies?
you should let it go on it own it cant survive when a human takes care of it
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A Caterpillar which will grow, cocoon and become a Butterfly
How does the female brown recluse spider take care of her offspring?
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How long after birth do parents care for offspring?
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