The butterfly

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leggy

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old.Fweddy

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mank!

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The life cycle of the butterfly is arguably one of the most bizarre and impressive examples of nature at work on the planet - one could be forgiven for believing that caterpillars and butterflies were entirely separate species. They have very dissimilar features and not only feed on different parts of plants but usually, within the same species, on different actual plants.

Circles, of course, have no beginnings, so arbitrarily, let's start with the egg:

The tiny eggs reveal a variety of shapes under a microscope - they are laid by the female on the relevant foodplant, found by a combination of shape or colour recognition and chemical examination and then are abandoned by the parent.
Around 5 days later, a tiny wormlike creature will hatch.

The newly emerged caterpillar has biting jaws, six real legs plus a number of extra 'prolegs' but no compound eye.
It gets to work quickly devouring its food source and shedding its skin (a process called ecdysis) in order to grow. After usually four moultings, the skin removed reveals the chrysalis or pupa.
Some caterpillars spin a cocoon first but most just fasten themselves to a plant with a silken thread.

Although the pupa ******dly looks inert and resting, inside it is a bubbling cauldron of activity as the caterpillar is literally liquefied, then reassembled, over about two to three weeks, into a very different creature. It's is still not fully understood how this process occurs.
Some species hibernate in this state, although the transforming chemistry is suspended for most of the winter period in this case.

The usual first evidence of the butterfly being ready to emerge is the translucency of the pupa skin showing the colouring of the wings beneath.
When the pupal skin splits, the limp, damp butterfly crawls out - now with compound eyes, a proboscis for feeding and very clearly six legs - the initially stubby wings are expanded by pumping blood into them and using gravity to help them enlarge.
A little warming in the sun and it is ready to fly off to feed and mate.

Then it dies.
 
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Clowneh!

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Originally posted by The Slug
someone tell me about the butterfly...
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YOU JUST SAID IT WAS A COOL MOVIE!
have you not watched it?
 
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Slug

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Yeah i have, but i would like to know more about it
 
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adams901

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so it was a cool movie but left you thinking to yourself "what the fuck just happened and what was it all about"?
 
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mank!

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Here's all you'll need about butterflies:

Originally posted by mank!
The life cycle of the butterfly is arguably one of the most bizarre and impressive examples of nature at work on the planet - one could be forgiven for believing that caterpillars and butterflies were entirely separate species. They have very dissimilar features and not only feed on different parts of plants but usually, within the same species, on different actual plants.

Circles, of course, have no beginnings, so arbitrarily, let's start with the egg:

The tiny eggs reveal a variety of shapes under a microscope - they are laid by the female on the relevant foodplant, found by a combination of shape or colour recognition and chemical examination and then are abandoned by the parent.
Around 5 days later, a tiny wormlike creature will hatch.

The newly emerged caterpillar has biting jaws, six real legs plus a number of extra 'prolegs' but no compound eye.
It gets to work quickly devouring its food source and shedding its skin (a process called ecdysis) in order to grow. After usually four moultings, the skin removed reveals the chrysalis or pupa.
Some caterpillars spin a cocoon first but most just fasten themselves to a plant with a silken thread.

Although the pupa ******dly looks inert and resting, inside it is a bubbling cauldron of activity as the caterpillar is literally liquefied, then reassembled, over about two to three weeks, into a very different creature. It's is still not fully understood how this process occurs.
Some species hibernate in this state, although the transforming chemistry is suspended for most of the winter period in this case.

The usual first evidence of the butterfly being ready to emerge is the translucency of the pupa skin showing the colouring of the wings beneath.
When the pupal skin splits, the limp, damp butterfly crawls out - now with compound eyes, a proboscis for feeding and very clearly six legs - the initially stubby wings are expanded by pumping blood into them and using gravity to help them enlarge.
A little warming in the sun and it is ready to fly off to feed and mate.

Then it dies.
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adams901

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oookay and we needed that posted twice on the same thread for? :)
 
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Embattle

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Originally posted by The Slug
someone tell me about the butterfly...
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I thought it was referred to as loosing your cherry.
 
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