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.

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 ...

It knows the way. The caterpillar surrenders to stillness, dissolving into a formless goo — no longer a caterpillar, not yet a butterfly. In that cocoon, she’s “No Thing.” That’s where the magic ...

The caterpillar, along with most others in the Saturniidae family, spins a silk cocoon. This is where it then spends its time as a pupa, the stage of development before the moth becomes an adult. The ...

It builds itself a cocoon to hide in but inside all ... will begin again Think about how different the adult butterfly is from the young caterpillar. All plants and animals follow the life cycle ...

A beautiful butterfly does not go back into the cocoon to become a caterpillar. However, no Butterfly exists without being a caterpillar first. Our program is the cocoon where the change happens.