The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage of the monarch butterfly life cycle. It uses spinnerets near its mouth to create a tiny silken pad.

The female butterfly lays her eggs on a leaf ... the ‘circle of life’ operates in nature. It also looks at life cycle stages and how animals change and develop as they move through these ...

In the study, Silvia Mecenero of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa and Stephen Kirkman of Nelson Mandela University examine the species' developmental stages ... butterfly's complete life ...

We call this a life cycle. As you grow older ... This is called the larva stage. It doesn't look much like a butterfly yet, does it? Eventually the caterpillar builds a chrysalis around itself ...

In the study, Silvia Mecenero of the Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa and Stephen Kirkman of Nelson Mandela University examine the species’ developmental stages ... butterfly's complete life ...