Discovery Scientist

So in gardening, we saw a  caterpillar on the tree. These caterpillars are eating leaves so that they can become butterflies. this picture shows the caterpillar eating the leaf butterfly Life Cycle  The First Stage: The Egg  Butterfly Eggs on a Leaf  A butterfly starts life as a very small, round, oval egg.   The Second Stage: The Larva  Butterfly Caterpillar  In the butterfly’s life cycle, there are four stages and this is only the second stage.  Butterfly larvae are actually what we call caterpillars.  The Third Stage is: Pupa  Caterpillar Becoming a Chrysalis The pupa stage is one of the coolest stages of a butterfly’s life.  As soon as a caterpillar is done growing and they have reached their full length/weight, they form themselves into a pupa, also known as a chrysalis.   The Fourth Stage: Is an Adult Butterfly Butterfly Emerging from a Chrysalis Finally, when the caterpillar has done all of it's forming and changing inside the pupa if