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Metamorphosis - Caterpillar Pupates - 2x speed

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Uploaded by on Jan 19, 2009

A caterpillar pupates by shedding its outer skin. Inside the hardened pupa, or chrysalis, metamorphosis continues until several days later a beautiful Monarch butterfly emerges. This video, by Greg Knudsen, is twice the normal speed.

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  • wheres the rest of it?

  • @paradigmshift360 To see the rest, click on my "Monarch Butterfly Emerging" under related videos.

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  • wow that is so disgusting but really beautiful at the same time.

  • His head just rips open and some green thing comes out! It's like one of those old fashioned alien movies. Why does it move around so much?

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  • that is so amazing :O

  • Why is it wriggling so much it's cute

  • thats so weird how it can do that 

  • @SmallieM The head isn't ripping open, a larvae for many insects are shells. The real living creature is inside. What a larvae or caterpillar does, is use it's larvae armor to look for food safely so that it will have nutrients to develop its wings, once it has enough food, it begins to fall into deep slumber, though it first has to detach itself from the larvae armor to allow for wings to freely move and grow inside the chrysalis. Detachment of flesh from transparent armor leads to a paleness.

  • Nice what is the thing that fell off>

  • Cool

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