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Butterflies are insects. Insects are Arthropod animals. They have exoskeletons, which means the skeleton is on the outside instead of the inside. Butterflies have to shed their skin to grow, which you can see when the caterpiller splits its skin, crawls out, then changes into a pupa.

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