While it might seem like an all-or-nothing process, insect metamorphosis likely emerged through gradual evolutionary changes.

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WEBVTT JACK HUBLEY. 3 METAMORPHOSIS.NATURE'S MAGIC ACT.A CHRYSALIS SPLITS AND OUT POPS A BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY. BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS START OUT AS CATERPILLARS THAT EVENTUALLY ENTER AN INACTAVE PUPA ...

Marvelous Monarchs: The butterflies are free - all you need is patience and milkweed George Carlin once observed that "the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." Not ...

Each year, Ithan Elementary School students engage in a multi-week investigation of the life cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly. In early spring, caterpillars barely one-half inch in length are ...

Residents of Pacific Grove, Calif., know Ro Vaccaro as the butterfly lady, and she usually wears at least one butterfly emblem every day. Pacific Grove is where 18,000 Monarch butterflies come to mate ...