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The butterfly life cycle involves the following stages:

1. After mating with a male butterfly, a sexually mature female butterfly lays her eggs on the leaves of plants
2. The eggs enter a growth phase until they are ready to hatch as caterpillars
3. Each caterpillar forms a chrysalis (pupa)
4. Each caterpillar then undergoes a complete physical transformation called metamorphosis
5. Now resembling a butterfly, it emerges from the chrysalis ready to mate so the cycle can continue