Have you ever played in the park and seen butterflies flying there? Beautiful, yes? Who would have thought, the beautiful winged butterfly used to come from a caterpillar that likes to eat leaves.
- This process of changing the shape of a butterfly is called metamorphosis. In this process, the adult butterfly will lay its eggs on the leaves.
- The eggs that the butterfly lays are much smaller than the grains of rice. The eggs on the leaves will hatch into a leaf-eating caterpillar (larva). In this phase, the caterpillar will eat the leaves greedily.
- Until the time comes, the caterpillar will stop eating, stay silent, then turn into a cocoon or pupa.
- When it becomes a cocoon, the caterpillar undergoes a lot of changes in body tissues. At this time, the caterpillar’s body in the cocoon will turn into a liquid.
- At this stage, the cocoon lacks eyes, mouth, legs. The formation of the butterfly will take place in the cocoon about 7-10 days, depending on the type of butterfly.
- After enough time, the cocoon will crack and a beautiful butterfly emerges.
- The body parts of a butterfly consist of the head (head), thorax (chest), abdomen (stomach).
- The head of a butterfly is composed of several parts that are fused together. The butterfly’s mouth is like a straw that serves to suck the honey essence on the flower.
- On the head of the butterfly there are also eyes. My butterfly eyes are very numerous, so they are called compound eyes. His eyes are shaped like spherical slits.
- The chest is the middle part of the butterfly’s body which has 3 parts, namely the prothorax, mesothorax, and metathorax.
- The prothorax is the part where the forelegs are attached, the mesothorax is where the middle legs are attached, and
the metatorax is where the hind legs and hind wings are attached. - In the abdomen of the butterfly there are digestive organs, excretory organs, and reproductive organs.
- Oh yes, from the beginning out of the cocoon to become an adult, the butterfly’s body will remain like that.
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