i found this on a website where parents find lies to tell their children:
This is not easy to explain. You can say that inside the chrysalis the caterpillar changes clothes and turns into a butterfly. (An esoteric explanation: Inside the chrysalis the caterpillar structures are broken down chemically and the adult's new structures are formed).
and this on some college website:
A1. Let's start at the beginning of a butterfly's life. Mother butterflies (and mother moths) lay eggs which have caterpillars inside them. They lay these eggs on the leaves of plants that their children, the caterpillars, will like to eat. Scientists call the caterpillars "larvae"; they use this word to describe baby animals that are very different from what they will be like as an adult. The caterpillars eat their way out of their eggs and immediately begin eating the leaves of the plant they are born on. Caterpillars eat, and eat, and eat. The caterpillar keeps growing bigger and bigger, and has to shed its old skin and grow a new skin several times so that it has room to grow. Eventually, the caterpillar will stop eating and attach itself to a plant. The caterpillar then makes a case around itself (a chrysalis). Butterfly caterpillars don't actually spin cocoons, like moth caterpillars do. When you look at the outside of a chrysalis, it doesn't look like anything is happening until right before the butterfly is ready to come out, but the larvae is really very busy.
While in the chrysalis, most of the caterpillar's body dies and the new butterfly body grows from it. The butterfly-to-be grows a new digestive system because it will eat the liquid in flowers instead of solid leaves like caterpillars do. Wings grow from disks that were already inside the caterpillar, and its muscle system changes so that it can control the new wings and fly. The larvae's way of sensing the world also changes. Caterpillars learn about the world by what they feel, while butterflies rely more on sight and smell. Caterpillars have eyes which can tell light from dark, but their eyes can't see colors and aren't very useful. Butterflies have eyes that see colors and they find the flowers they get food from with their eyes. Does anyone know any other ways that butterflies are different from caterpillars? (Possible responses include: caterpillars have a lot more legs than butterflies, butterflies wings are brightly colored, butterflies are "prettier.".,
Thanks, that answered most of my questions about it. But like, how exactly does something come from the "dead" caterpillar? And how do they make the chrysalis? What is it made from, how do those things come about and make the chrysalis? Haha, I have so many questions on it. I'll probably never know. But I'm curious as all hell. But really, thanks for showing me that, it helped ease my mind, though it also stimulated some more curiosity. So cool.
This is not easy to explain. You can say that inside the chrysalis the caterpillar changes clothes and turns into a butterfly. (An esoteric explanation: Inside the chrysalis the caterpillar structures are broken down chemically and the adult's new structures are formed).
and this on some college website:
A1. Let's start at the beginning of a butterfly's life. Mother butterflies (and mother moths) lay eggs which have caterpillars inside them. They lay these eggs on the leaves of plants that their children, the caterpillars, will like to eat. Scientists call the caterpillars "larvae"; they use this word to describe baby animals that are very different from what they will be like as an adult. The caterpillars eat their way out of their eggs and immediately begin eating the leaves of the plant they are born on. Caterpillars eat, and eat, and eat.
The caterpillar keeps growing bigger and bigger, and has to shed its old skin and grow a new skin several times so that it has room to grow. Eventually, the caterpillar will stop eating and attach itself to a plant. The caterpillar then makes a case around itself (a chrysalis). Butterfly caterpillars don't actually spin cocoons, like moth caterpillars do. When you look at the outside of a chrysalis, it doesn't look like anything is happening until right before the butterfly is ready to come out, but the larvae is really very busy.
While in the chrysalis, most of the caterpillar's body dies and the new butterfly body grows from it. The butterfly-to-be grows a new digestive system because it will eat the liquid in flowers instead of solid leaves like caterpillars do. Wings grow from disks that were already inside the caterpillar, and its muscle system changes so that it can control the new wings and fly. The larvae's way of sensing the world also changes. Caterpillars learn about the world by what they feel, while butterflies rely more on sight and smell. Caterpillars have eyes which can tell light from dark, but their eyes can't see colors and aren't very useful. Butterflies have eyes that see colors and they find the flowers they get food from with their eyes. Does anyone know any other ways that butterflies are different from caterpillars? (Possible responses include: caterpillars have a lot more legs than butterflies, butterflies wings are brightly colored, butterflies are "prettier.".,
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