Why is molting necessary for the growth of a butterfly?

Answer 1

Technically a caterpillar molts out of its cacoon after it has transformed to its butterfly form but a butterfly in adult form doesn't moot because they don't grow thick enough skin to moot in their small lifecycle

Answer 2

For each arthropod (inculding: lobsters, crayfish, scorpions, beetles and insects), there comes a point at which the creature's muscles just aren't strong enough to carry around the weight of the exoskeleton. Thus, each arthropod is limited to how big it can get. Class Crusgacea contains the largest arthropods, some of which can grow to 12 feet. The other classes of arthropods contain species that rarely get much larger that 11 inches. Not only does the exoskeleton limit the growth potential of an arthropod is alsa make it hard for the arthropod to grow during its life cycle. The exoskeleton is by the arthropod's epidermis and forms around the body, but it cannot grow. Thus, as the body gets bigger, the exoskeleton gets more and more constricting. As a result, an arthropod must molt several times throughout the course of its life time.

Answer 3

They molt so they can grow. The reason they have to molt to grow is because their exoskeliton can not grow. And their exoskeleton can not grow because it is basicly a bone except on the outside. Our bones can grow is (my asumption) because of the fact that our body can do what it wants to the bone, inside and out side.

Not all insects molt, though. The species that hatch from their eggs looking more or less like a small edition of the adult insect molt to grow, for example grasshoppers, roaches, true bugs or dragonflies. That's called incomplete metamorphosis. Others hatch from the egg as a larva, the larva then grows, pupates and the adult insects hatches from the cocoon. it will then not grow any further. Beetles, flies or butterflies are among those insects, it's called complete metamorphosis.

Answer 4

Molting is necessary for the butterfly larvae, called a caterpillar, as it repeatedly outgrows its skin. Their skin doesn't grow to accommodate them, and therefore needs to be periodically shed to reveal new skin underneath. After about four sheds, the caterpillar will turn into a pupa and then emerge as an adult butterfly.

Answer 5

It occurs because the cat is too hot. In the Winter, cats try to get as much fur as it can to keep it warm. When it starts to get closer to Spring, that's when a cat start to shed its fur so it has less fur to stay cool.

Answer 6

Molting is the process by which insects grow. It is the shedding of their exoskeleton when they go through metamorphosis and began another stage of their life.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, Yes. It molts by covering its skin into a pupa. Cool, right?