CATERPILLAR
The larval, or early, stage of a butterfly is the caterpillar.
A caterpillar is the larval stage of a moth or butterfly.
Plants within the violet family (Violaceae) are what Hewitson's Glassy Legionnaire (Acraea admatha) butterfly seeks as larval food plants.Specifically, a larval food plant is the host plant to the butterfly in the larval stage. The butterfly lays eggs, which hatch into caterpillars. The caterpillars ultimately transition to the butterfly stage after passing through a pupal stage inside a chrysalis.
It grows the most at its larval stage (caterpillar)
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A butterfly starting with "cat" is a "caterpillar," which is the larval stage of a butterfly before it undergoes metamorphosis into an adult butterfly.
If you have a butterfly garden there is no "baby" stage. This baby stage you are talking about is actually the larval stage better know as the Caterpillar stage.
A butterfly in its larval stage is called a caterpillar.
The butterfly goes through many stages in its lifetime. It is only during the cocoon stage, that it stops eating completely.
Swallowtail butterfly [of the Papilionidae family], as caterpillars in the larval stage. Some weevils [of the Curculionidae family].
The larval form of a butterfly is properly called a caterpillar. When the caterpillar enters the pupae stage, it will form a chrysalis around itself for protection during metamorphosis.
A butterfly larva is called a caterpillar; moth larvae are called the same thing. Both insects undergo complete metamorphosis when the caterpillars enter their pupal stages, emerging in their adult forms.