What is a Larva?
Behind a larva’s head is where the new skin is. You can’t see it because it’s visible and the old skin is split. Their skin starts getting darker after time. A larva has a mode that’s called wanderlust. It moves until it senses a secure spot.
Larva have legs but worms don’t. Larva look like worms but they're not. Larva skin doesn’t grow.The larva have
to molt because molting is the process of growing a new skin and shedding the
old one. Larva molt four to five times. It takes 5 days for a monarch
butterfly egg to hatch. When there’s a black dot on the monarch egg that means
its hatching and also it means that that’s the head of the larva. The larva
eats the egg to get out of it. The caterpillar then turns left and right to try
to find the egg and then when he finds it he eats it.
Larva lay their eggs next to the
milkweed plants. Inside a butterfly's egg grows a caterpillar or larva and there's five parts to its stage. The stages are known as instars.
This video shows a caterpillar turning into a chrysalis in 1 minute and 23 seconds and the caterpillar wiggles to be a chrysalis. It turns into a yellow chrysalis.The yellow chrysalis is going to be a monarch butterfly.
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This life cycle of a butterfly shows an egg on a leaf then there's an arrow going to the caterpillar. Then to a chrysalis and into an adult butterfly. An adult emerges into a butterfly. When a caterpillar starts like an egg it then takes 4 weeks for the life cycle process to end.
This is an image of when a caterpillar gets out of its egg it then starts looking for the egg and then when he finds it he'll go to the egg and he'll eat it. Then he'll also start looking for milkweed plants.
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