A butterfly is a tiny flying creature that starts life as a crawling bug and later turns into something beautiful.
How it changes
At first, a butterfly looks like a worm, it’s called a caterpillar. The caterpillar eats leaves all day long, growing bigger and bigger until one day, it stops eating and finds a safe place to rest. It makes a little house around itself called a chrysalis, where it changes from a bug into a butterfly.
Flying time
After some time inside the chrysalis, the butterfly comes out, all grown up! Its wings are soft and wrinkled at first, but soon they dry and become strong. Then it can fly around, visiting flowers to drink nectar, just like you might take a sip from your juice box.
You can see butterflies in parks or gardens, fluttering from one flower to another, just like how you might run from one toy to the next!
Examples
- A caterpillar turns into a butterfly after sleeping in a chrysalis for a few days.
- Butterflies use their wings to fly and drink nectar from flowers.
- Some butterflies travel thousands of miles during the day.
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See also
- Why Do Caterpillars Eat So Much?
- Why Do Bees Build Hexagonal Honeycombs?
- Why Do Caterpillars Turn Into Butterflies?
- Why Do Patterns Appear in Nature?
- Why Do Patterns Appear Everywhere?