Did you know that caterpillars come from butterfly eggs? See pictures of butterflies laying eggs on their host plants.

Me-ta-mor-pho-sis. When a male and a female butterfly reproduce, the female lays eggs somewhere safe. When these eggs hatch out, they become caterpillars. This is called the larva stage.

The female butterfly lays her eggs on a leaf, out of which hatches a larva or caterpillar. The caterpillar feeds on the leaves and plants around it. After a few weeks, when the caterpillar has ...

The two-lined hooktip moth lays its eggs in even rows on twigs and leaves of birch and alder trees. When the eggs hatch, almost inscrutably small larvae emerge, some as short as half a millimeter. But ...