Watch a Monarch caterpillar go through metamorphosis and become a gorgeous butterfly. In this awe-inspiring timelapse, we see ...

Only certain moths build cocoons, which are like a silky ... That's all the waste the butterfly, née caterpillar, produced during its stay. Once its wings expand and harden, it's ready to mate ...

The outer skin hardens, and, over time, the caterpillar develops its body inside the cocoon. It digests itself and rebuilds itself, too. It eventually transforms into a beautiful butterfly.

It builds itself a cocoon to hide in ... Think about how different the adult butterfly is from the young caterpillar. All plants and animals follow the life cycle of their species.

The pressure is on the caterpillars to consume enough food before going into the cocoon to sustain the moth when it is reborn. In the wild, atlas moth caterpillars eat the leaves of cinnamon, citrus ...

The Greeks saw the two as intrinsically linked – the emergence of the butterfly from the cocoon was the soul ascending from the body. Sir Winston Churchill was an avid collector of butterflies ...

Now, they’ve identified the butterfly as a new “cryptic” species. The caterpillars choose trees and shrubs on the outskirts of forests to make their cocoon. DeRoller CJ, Wang X, Dupuis JR ...