Well really it depends on the time and date that they started to caccoon
a year
A tent caterpillar when it get long and fat to last the sleep
our caterpillars that we got from Bugville made their cocoons 7 days after we received them, and turned into butterflys 12 days after they made the cocoons.
White-lined sphinx caterpillars form their cocoons in underground burrows and remain there for two to three weeks before they emerge.
There are several types of oleander caterpillars, including oleander hawk and spotted oleander. The spotted oleander caterpillar stays in their cocoons for about two weeks before merging as a moth.
Yes, they survive- as long as it's in a good place and well-protected from wind, rain and harsh temperatures. If they couldn't survive we simply wouldn't have any more caterpillars the following spring!
This is really depends on the type of caterpillar you have/seen. (whatever) It can take a few weeks; but before winter arrives, butterflies have the ability to make the process last for months at a time.
Doubtfully, but more importantly, why does it matter. 'Knowing' implies cognitive thought which means a caterpillar would have a capacity by which it could process information, which in humans is a brain. Though a human baby is born with a brain, it is just starting to develop the concept of future so s/he is not aware of becoming an adult.
I have had the same yellow maggots in long cocoons and I cannot find out what they are. Does anyone know?
in an ecosystem there is long green grass. sticks and very few predators. they are cold blooded so they like warm ecosystems. caterpillars like few trees and flat land.
i don't know but i have seen one
They would prefer trees because they like to eat leaves and twigs. They also make their cocoons on twigs or branches. They would not live long with out leaves because they have to store food while they are in their cocoon. So I would keep them on trees.