How A Caterpillar Becomes A Butterfly | The Dodo

How A Caterpillar Becomes A Butterfly | Here’s exactly how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Spoiler: Each step is weird, amazing and beautiful!

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[taraann]

The beauty of nature that goes on in front of our eyes but we don't even notice.

[mdseasonrahman]

Moral of the story: Eating and sleeping makes you beautiful.

[lolonatsu]

"the caterpillar actually digest himself"

me: so he eats himself and then throws himself out as a pre butterfly? Crazy how nature works

[maria]

How great it is to be a butterfly, you eat, eat, eat, and then sleep, sleep, sleep and then you become beautiful.

[shivambhatt]

Interesting fact: It breaks down and dissolves pretty much it's whole body (except nervous system) into a biological soup and rebuilds entirely. Almost nothing is known about how in the the hell a broken down biological goo can rebuild a butterfly!

[talkaboutwacky]

It fascinates me how theyre alone at their birth and the only thing guiding them is instinct

[THAPAN-PAYODHI]

When the caterpillar thought, it's life is going to end, it began to FLY....🌼

[GamesAG]

"THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!"

[ashiljohn]

How does a caterpillar know when it's time to become a butterfly? I wonder if they develop a tummy ache after eating all those leaves and decide to take a nap, when all of a sudden, they feel their skin is on fire and try to get rid of it and BAM! They slip into a coma, and when they wake up, they've got wings!

[natrulyvivacious]

I didn't even know that they turn into total goo and then that goo turns into a beautiful creature. I'm OVERLY amazed

[boosiel]

If you’re going through struggling, don’t stop, but go through it 💯

[dee-pijz]

“The caterpillar actually digests himself” 😂 This is so interesting

[debrakleid]

That’s really neat. Love the time lapse to show the birth of the caterpillar to the cocoon stage and then becoming a butterfly. Beautiful!

[MeisterKlassisch]

Imagine his feelings during first flight after transformation. 💗

[elizabree]

I’ve raised monarch butterflies! They are so fascinating, and butifull! When they hatched, even when they’re wings were dry, they let me hold them!! So cute! Yet I had to let them go… I found a few of them dead a few days after I let them go, I didn’t find all of them! Hope they’re ok!! 👌🦋

[jayple_syrup]

When the caterpillar is trying to shed his skin it looks like he's dancing

[SnailSnail]

One actually awesome thing that happened in 2020, was that our backyard was filled with monarch caterpillars that summer, and I got many pictures of them. And one of them turned into a chrysalis, and I got a picture of that too. And then I got another picture when it opened, and at some point I saw a monarch butterfly fluttering around. I felt like a kid again watching the butterfly life cycle.

[joykrupa]

Fun fact : butterfly can't see the beauty of its own wings .. and thinks that it's is very normal ( just like others without knowing it's beauty)

Maybe ur the butterfly I'm talking about😉🦋🦋

[FaithRox]

"Evolution makes perfect sense and doesn't do anything weird..." - People who don't actually understand evolution

"Hold my beer..." - Evolution

[piashridazzle]

I had a pet caterpillar and I have watched it turn into butterfly the same one its beautiful