Butterflies go through four distinct stages during their life cycle and look different at each step. A butterfly begins as an egg that hatches and transforms into a caterpillar, which then consumes and expands over time, before eventually shedding its skin several times and emerging as an adult butterfly. Once a caterpillar lays her eggs,…
Start teaching your students about the majestic butterfly lifecycle by sharing books like Madison and Hawkes’ Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly or The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Once a caterpillar has shed its skin four times, it enters its third stage: larva or pupal stage. Here it finds shelter and builds its protective covering…
An ideal planet for hosting life must meet certain conditions; specifically, its star’s habitable zone must allow life to thrive there. It should have a surface where liquid water can gather, as well as an atmosphere which protects its inhabitants from harmful solar radiation. Are there planets similar to our Earth in the universe? Size…
Life cycles of plants describe their development from birth through growing, flowering and seed production to maturity and death. All plants start as seeds. After being planted and germinating, each seed produces two leaves known as cotyledons before breaking open to grow roots and shoots. Seed Seeds are the fruit of plants, each one containing…
At its final stage, a caterpillar searches out a safe place and constructs an encasing called a chrysalis. Though this structure seems motionless at first glance, incredible processes are underway inside. Special butterfly cells transform into the wings, legs and eyes of adult butterflies in this demanding process, which may take between 1-14 months depending…
At the beginning of their lives, butterfly females lay eggs on leaves or stems. These tiny oval or cylindrical eggs come in various colours. Once an egg hatches, a larva (also known as a caterpillar) emerges and begins eating and growing through several growth stages called instars. Eggs A butterfly’s life cycle is one of…
Plants undergo a life cycle which includes stages such as germination, growth, flowering and seed formation. In this article we will focus on the flowering lifecycle. Once a seed reaches optimal conditions of moisture, warmth, and light, it sprouts into a seedling with roots growing down to anchor it into the earth, while stems extending…
A butterfly starts its journey as an embryonic egg that has been fertilized, then hatches under favorable environmental conditions into an egg larva or caterpillar stage. A larva eats and develops, gradually shedding its skin four or five times as it goes along; this process is known as moulting. A larva then forms a pupal…
Children across the world love butterflies with their vibrant colors and intricate patterns, as they follow them from Egg, Larva, Pupa to Adulthood in their life cycle. The larva consumes food all day and grows until it is time for its next transformation, creating a vessel called a chrysalis around itself to prepare for metamorphosis…
