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.
The Caterpillar is becoming a Butterfly.
Cocoon
An adult butterfly is called just that. In the larva stage it is called a caterpillar. The process is called metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis
metamorphosis
A caterpillar. ^^
Suzymr fuzzms. fuzz
there are people who also call it larvae although it is commonly spoken as caterpillar - Gilbert
Metamorphosis .
The process is called metamorphosis. Initially, the caterpillar goes through the pupa or chrysalis stage before emerging as a butterfly.
Spoodlefur
We call it a cocoon.