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The ultimate must be "over winter" lest the species perish. But the question then becomes 'what constitutes "winter"?', how cold and how long? My daughter brought in several of these species' caterpillars last fall (September, October) and we just had a hatching bloom in February. So at coolish room temperatures (60sF) they seem to have a built-in, end-of-season minimum cocoon-span of 6 months. Outdoors in prevailing winter temperatures they stay cocooned long enough to assure they are past (hard) freezing temperatures before hatching, since, as cold-blooded insects, they can die if they can't protect themselves from temperatures a few degrees below freezing. In warm summer temperatures the cocoon-span would be much shorter; they sense it is not end-of-season and they need to get a few generations of butterflies hatched during each summer season to reproduce the species. (I do not know the average summer minimum cocoon-span time, that would take an entomologist to .)

For a start Butterflies make chrysalis, moths make cocoons. There are major differences between the two and they should not be confused.

As for the timespan spent in the chrysalis, that is a little hard to . Pupation normally lasts for 10 to 15 days, but it really depends on the time that the stage starts. If the caterpillar starts to pupate in late autumn to early winter, then they will stay in this state until the weather become warmer, which can take a few months. Whereas, if pupation starts in spring or summer, they will only stay in the chrysalis for the normally 10 to 15 days.

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