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milkweed plant.

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leaf of milkweed plant.
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of its leaves.
The egg is the beginning of another....
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stirs the stem of the milkweed plant. The
monarch egg is white and shiny.
It is the size of a small dot and sticks to
the leaf.
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it sticky.
Wind and rain cannot make the egg come
loose.
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a small caterpillar, also called a larva.
First the caterpillar eats the eggshell and
then chews away at the milkweed leaf.
The egg of a monarch is almost always
laid on a milkweed plant. The plant will
be its food.
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to change.
It breaks out of its old skin, showing a new
skin underneath. This is
called molting.
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It molts a bout five times. Finally, it is a full
grown monarch caterpillar, a bout two inches
long.
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The caterpillar creeps to the stem of a leaf.
It attaches itself to the steam and drops
down head first. The caterpillar's bright
colors become greenish.
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The skin falls off. A new, strange form appears!
It is called the chrysalis or pupa. The chrysalis
is like a blanket that is wrapped around the
body growing inside.
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it shrinks and hardens, and becomes light
green decorated with gold dots. Inside monarch
butterfly begins to grow.
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again. It turns gray green before becoming
transparent. Inside are white dots, and orange
and black lines.
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butterfly begins to pull itself out. The head and
legs appear first, and then the rest of it slides
out.
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the butterfly's abdomen is big. The abdomen
becomes smaller when its fluid is pumped
into the wings. The wings become bigger. A
Caterpillar has turned into butterfly. This
called metamorphosis.
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The butterfly sits quietly for a few hours, waiting
for its wings to dry and harden. At last they begin
to move slowly, and then beat faster and faster.
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