The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage of the monarch ... The ...

In the case of a butterfly, the pupa is inside the chrysalis (other insects may spin cocoons or pupate in the soil) until the adult emerges. Adults mate and lay eggs. An insect with incomplete ...

a sexually mature female butterfly lays her eggs on the leaves of plants The eggs enter a growth phase until they are ready to hatch as caterpillars Each caterpillar forms a chrysalis (pupa ...