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Caterpillar Builds Cocoon
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After two weeks of feasting, a caterpillar weighing 200 times its original birthweight begins its transformation into a butterfly.
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Monarch Caterpillar Chrysalis
Photograph courtesy of National Geographic Television
A monarch caterpillar has completed its chrysalis and will change into a buttefly within two weeks.
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Monarch Cocoon
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Inside the cocoon the monarch caterpillar sprouts antennae, legs, and wings.
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Monarch Butterfly Hatches
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A monarch butterfly emerges from its cocoon.
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Monarch Butterfly Emerges
Photograph courtesy of National Geographic Television
A couple of hours after the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis, its wings are dry enough for the butterfly to take its first flight.
