A caterpillar and a pupa are both soft without exoskeletons
The process is called metamorphosis. Initially, the caterpillar goes through the pupa or chrysalis stage before emerging as a butterfly.
A caterpillar is in the Larva stage. When it goes into it's cocoon it will be in the pupa stage. When it hatches, it will become a butterfly (and therefore be in the adult stage)
The pupa is the stage of metamorphosis during which a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly.
A baby moth is the larval stage of a moth, typically known as a caterpillar. Caterpillars hatch from eggs and eventually transform into adult moths through a process called metamorphosis.
The life stage of an insect beginning with "ch" is chrysalis. The chrysalis is the stage during which a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly or moth through a process called metamorphosis.
Larvae turn into adults through the process of metamorphosis. This process starts after a larva turns into a pupa. It then emerges from the pupal stage in its adult form.
Butterflies molt while in the caterpillar stage. Caterpillars eat all the time and grow quickly. Each time their exoskeleton gets too tight, they molt. They go through this process 4 to 5 times.
That's the pupal stage-the caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis and adult butterfly emerges.
When an insect has gone through metamorphosis, it has completely changed its form. If it had a pupal stage before metamorphosis, then it underwent complete metamorphosis. If it didn't have a pupal stage, then it underwent incomplete metamorphosis.
The two processes that are directly responsible for the growth and development of a butterfly are metamorphosis and molting. Metamorphosis involves distinct stages of development, from egg to larva (caterpillar) to pupa (chrysalis) to adult butterfly. Molting is the shedding of the exoskeleton as the butterfly grows larger during each stage of its development.
No, mosquito doesn't goes through complete metamorphosis they pass through incomplete metamorphosis as because their is no pupa stage in it's lifecycle.
Because the caterpillar is an intermediate stage of the development. It will go through something called metamorphosis after which it will look like its parents. Think of the caterpillar like a sort of mobile egg, which doesn't look much like its parents either.