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Life Cycle Of Butterfly: Life Cycle Of A Butterfly

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Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Life cycle of an animal is as a unit of biological time concept, showing and describing the developments that occur in an animal. All living things ever exist on the Earth will undergo this cycle to ensure the sustainability of the offspring. Uniquely, every single animal has different life cycle that is sometimes totally not identical to each other at all. So does a butterfly, it also goes through four stages in its life in order to complete the cycle before it can become a beautiful flying organism (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix). Besides, each four stages also serve different purposes, and usually the process may up to almost weeks to month. Butterfly first starts out as an egg. Normally, a matured, fertilized female butterfly will produce eggs, where it is a group of single egg lays together very close to one and another. Certain species of the butterfly can also lay hundreds to thousands eggs at a time. Scott (as cited in Stamp, 1980, p.367) revealed that “mating in butterflies is usually followed by dispersal and a preoviposition period of three to eight days although some species lay egg cluster …show more content…

During this stage, caterpillar changes and hangs itself in the cocoan. When caterpillar is in the cocoan, it will go through a formation process of the parts of its wings, legs and body. The wings of the cocoan undergo fast mitosis in order to change the shape from a pair of small wings to the big wings, which seem more suitable to be flown. Consequently, if a wing took off, another three wings left will continue to grow up. Inside of the cocoan, the wings form a structure where it can be fast- opened until it reaches the adult size completely. When the pupa is noticed to turn darker and the wings patterns starts to appear obviously, it symbolizes that the pupa is ready enough to be a butterfly (Abang, 2006; Pembleton et al.,

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