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Caterpillars are basically cylindrical in shape, a bit like cigarettes, only they move and eat, and have lots of little legs sticking out.
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What is the young one of butterfly called?
Caterpillars.
What is the genus species for a caterpillar?
The genus species for a caterpillar will vary depending on the type of caterpillar. For example, the Buck Moth caterpillar is the genus type Hemileuca.
What is a butterfly called when it is a larva?
A caterpillar.
What is a baby moth?
A caterpillar
Whats the reproduction cicle of butterflies?
The butterfly is an insect that has 4 separate stages of life. The egg is the beginning of life for the caterpillar. The caterpillar then forms a chrysalis. After the caterpillar changes in the chrysalis to a butterfly, it emerges to restart the circle of life.
What shape is a caterpillar's egg?
Most butterfly eggs are oval or circular and stuck on to the plant the baby caterpillar will eat.
What greek word means changing shape describing the change from a caterpillar to a butterfly?
The Greek word that means changing shape, specifically describing the transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly, is "metamorphosis."
Caterpillars and grasshoppers which one lives longer?
A caterpillar isn't and adult insect. A caterpillar is an intermediate shape on the way to the finished insect. So it doesn't really make sense to talk about a caterpillar lifelength. Unless stopped by something else, caterpillars eventually metamorphose - change into Another insect shape.
What makes a chrysalis stick to a leaf?
The caterpillar spins a button of silk and then hangs in a J shape.
What happens if you touch a black asp caterpillar?
It changes shape to look like the head of a snake
How do chrysalises attach to a leaf?
The caterpillar spins a button of silk and hangs in a J shape then starts to make the chrysalis"
Does the color of the caterpillar determine the color of the butterfly?
no the catarpillar evolves when its cacooned and it changes the whole form,shape size and color :)
How can the monarch butterfly and its caterpillar have the same DNA?
Imagine a house made from blue Legos. This is your caterpillar; the color represents the DNA. When the caterpillar goes into its cocoon, it is like taking all the Legos apart and putting them back together as something different. This cannot change the color of the Legos. The caterpillar and butterfly are made out of the same cells, with the same DNA, just put back together in a different shape.
What is the time line of a caterpillar's life?
i have this caterpillar that is dark green with some orange and brown on the back but has seven light colored slashes on the sides of him and has a coned shape head with im guessing a antenna on the top of his head but there is only one does anyone know what typ of caterpillar he is i have been look but cant find him anywhere help me please
What is the possessive noun for caterpillar?
The possessive form of the noun caterpillar is caterpillar's.Example: The caterpillar's colors are black and red.
Is the caterpillar the larval form of a butterfly?
a larvae which is in fact smaller than a caterpillar and slimier. before that to be precise it is an egg the shape of an eye : () and there are loads. they can vary in colour from white to yellow.
How does a caterpillar explode?
Caterpillar do not explode.
