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Caterpillars after coming out from the eggs after hatching eats all day and night for about 25 to 30 days. As it eats more food than its weight of the body, their skin splits and they have the need to shed their skin.
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∙ 16y agoAssuming you are refering to the stage when the catapillar emerges from the cacoon as a moth or butterfly, molting would be the correct term. The cacoon is molted and the adult emerges. The immediately follows metamorphasis.
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∙ 12y agoA caterpillar sheds its skin because its skin gets too tight. The caterpillar needs to grow so that is why it sheds its skin. Eventually the caterpillar will turn into a crysalis or the pupa stage.
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∙ 11y agoMolting is when a caterpillar sheds its skin. It does this several times in its stage of being a caterpillar until it makes the cocoon.
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∙ 11y agothe process is molting
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∙ 12y agoMetaphorsus
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When a caterpillar becomes a butterfly is the process called chrysalis?
The Caterpillar is becoming a Butterfly.
What do you call an adult butterfly?
An adult butterfly is called just that. In the larva stage it is called a caterpillar. The process is called metamorphosis.
What do you call a caterpillar house?
Cocoon
What is the name of the process in which a caterpillar turns into a?
Metamorphosis
What is the name of the process of caterpillar to butterfly?
metamorphosis
When caterpillar changed into a butterfly the process is called?
Metamorphosis .
What is the name of the process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly?
The process is called metamorphosis. Initially, the caterpillar goes through the pupa or chrysalis stage before emerging as a butterfly.
What shall you call your caterpillar?
Suzymr fuzzms. fuzz
What do you call the baby of a small white moth?
A caterpillar. ^^
What names do caterpillars have apart from caterpillar?
there are people who also call it larvae although it is commonly spoken as caterpillar - Gilbert
What do you call the hair of the caterpillar that can make us itch?
Spoodlefur
What is the science of a caterpillar to a butterfly?
Its not a science. Its a biological process called metamorphosis.
