Caterpillars

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The answer to how long it takes for a butterfly to transform is usually 2-6 weeks, and to improve your question....

How long does it take for a caterpillar to transform into a butterfly?

I observed a two-day old monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf. The next day the caterpillar was nowhere to be found, but an earwig was hiding nearby in a crevice formed by an emerging milkweed blossom. It could have eaten the caterpillar.

It is believed to turn into a White Lined Sphinx Moth, another name for it is a Hawkmoth.

They are (by definition) considered insects. They are in the insect order Lepidoptera and are classified with insects because they have a head, thorax, and abdomen. They also have three pairs of walking legs, antennae and a pair of wings-which are the characteristics of most insects.

Because a caterpillar moves in a rippling fashion. It contracts the muscles in its rear segments, pushing blood into the forward segments, which lengthens the front part of the body. The legs hold onto the forward position and then the front muscles contract, pulling the rear segment forward.

With over 25,000 species of caterpillars throughout the world there is a huge variation in the sizes that caterpillars can grow to with the smallest caterpillars measuring just 1mm and the largest caterpillars measuring 75 mm or 3 inches.

well its a caterpillar for two week and then turns into a butterfly and lives for two more weeks

Yes, but they only reproduce as adults. The caterpillar is the immature stage of what will become a moth.

no, but if the animal does not know it is a bad animal to eat it will get a stomach ache

They do not damage your garden at all. They don't really affect it in any way, except to make it prettier.

3 days

Only a certain type of caterpillar called a horned tomato caterpillar.

Lime Hawk-moth Mimas tiliae

A Caterpillar which will grow, cocoon and become a Butterfly

Caterpillars usually do not do very well when the weather is cold, and they may also struggle if it is too hot. They do best when living in temperatures of about 75 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

That sounds like a cinnabar moth caterpillar. They are toxic and can deliver quite a sting and are quite aggressive towards each other.

Actually, we have monarch caterpillars on our milkweed outside. It took only a few days, maybe a little more than a week of eating before they were fat enough and ready. At the moment, a few minutes ago, one of ours just started its cocoon.

yep P.S mine is starting its caccoon too! i got 2 but one lazy one hasent ate was much but hes slowly climbing up for to start at this momment so like hours ao my catapiller( it is a monarch) started... its make a little lot more of the stuff for it...its preparing its body for the cocoon now!

Overwintering eggs hatch early in the season, then the caterpillars start eating like crazy and building their tent. they become fully grown by late spring or summer, and during the growing process they can actually eat every leaf from a tree, so that the tree must redevelop all of its leaves.Once the caterpillars are grown they wander off and hide themselves in well protected places such as a piece of tree bark laying against rock.There they spin silken cocoons for themselves, then moths emerge from those cocoons in a few weeks.

YES, they do eat the skin they have shed. I've watched this occur in my garden & I have a video of it. It's probably filled with nutrients for the growing caterpillar. There are 5 instars, or stages of growth. After they shed their skin, they grow to the next instar, then shed their skin again. This happens 5 times, then the caterpillar goes into a chrysalis and eventually emerges as a butterfly.

I dk, im looking it up right now cuz i just found one too.

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catterpillers can't be eaten

The caterpillars purpose is VERY significant!!!

It gives us these BEAUTIFUL butterflies!!!


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It is false that the chrysalis appears during the first stage of metamorphosis. It shows during the second stage, which is the pupal stage. When a caterpillar is fully grown and the skin comes off for one last time, the hard skin under the old one is the chyrsalis.