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Monarch Butterfly Pupation

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Uploaded by on Sep 1, 2009

A time-lapse sequence showing a Monarch butterfly caterpillar changing into a chrysalis. The video is ten times faster than life.

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  • i am obbsessed with liquid nitrogen. the first thing that pooped into my head was: what would happen if a butterfly cocoon was to be put in liquid nitrogen??

  • @jakeacer121 Technical note: Butterflies have chrysalises, moths have cocoons.

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  • the thing that have water in its composition freeze and if you drop it they break

  • I am terrified of butterflies. This was horrifying.

  • I wonder if that cacoon was in the skin of the caterpiller since birth.

    after it comes out it is like a completely new creature

  • Thank you, very interesting!

  • Wow! Thank you for the video :D

  • hey, looks like i'm the first viewer and the first to rate ^^

    That's beautifull !

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