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After a caterpillar comes out of the cocoon, it sits on a leaf and flaps its wings slowly to dry them. Once dried, they flap them harder and begin to hover. Then, once they get used to it, They take off!!

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It is an egg then it is a larva (caterpillar) then a pupa (chrysalis) then a butterfly.

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