Butterfly Life Cycle
The butterfly life cycle involves the following stages:
- After mating with a male butterfly, a sexually mature female butterfly lays her eggs on the leaves of plants
- The eggs enter a growth phase until they are ready to hatch as caterpillars
- Each caterpillar forms a chrysalis (pupa)
- Each caterpillar then undergoes a complete physical transformation called metamorphosis
- Now resembling a butterfly, it emerges from the chrysalis ready to mate so the cycle can continue