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Observe a caterpillar munching on leaves
Watch caterpillars eating vegetation.
Video: © Fun Travel TV (
A Britannica Publishing Partner
)
Watch a caterpillar larva eat milkweed, form a pupa, and emerge as a monarch butterfly
Learn about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly (
Danaus plexippus
).
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Monarch butterfly migration explained
Learn about the monarch butterfly, including its annual migration to Mexico.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Rinus Baak/Dreamstime.com
View the hatching of the cabbage white caterpillars from eggs
Time-lapse video, filmed over two days, of cabbage white caterpillars (
Pieris...
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Markus Staab/Musopen.org (
A Britannica Publishing Partner
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Images
caterpillars
Disruptive markings provide protection for a clump of caterpillars.
E.S. Ross
caterpillars
A mass of crawling caterpillars.
© Digital Vision/Getty Images
caterpillar of the mourning cloak butterfly
Caterpillar of the mourning cloak, or Camberwell beauty, butterfly (
Nymphalis...
© Nikki Reicha and Kaleb Krein
spotted tussock caterpillar
Spotted tussock caterpillar (
Lophocampa maculata
).
E.S. Ross
armyworm
The armyworm (
Pseudaletia unipuncta
), the larva of an owlet moth (family...
William E. Ferguson
eastern tent caterpillars
Eastern tent caterpillars (
Malacosoma americanum
).
G. E. Hyde/The Natural History Photographic Agency
Caterpillars of the eastern tent caterpillar moth (
Malacosoma americanum
,...
Louis Quitt/Photo Researchers
Indian meal moth larva
Indian meal moth larva (
Plodia interpunctella
)
Scott Bauer—Agricultural Research Service/U.S. Department of Agriculture
Omnivorous looper (
Sabulodes caberata
) larva
William E. Ferguson
Processionary caterpillars (
Thaumetopoea pityocampa
)
Ingmar Holmasen
Silkworm larvae (genus
Bombyx
) feeding on mulberry leaves.
UPI/Bettmann Archive
Startle markings of a mature swallowtail butterfly larva (
Papilio
).
E.S. Ross
body plan of a male lepidopteran
Body plan of a generalized male adult butterfly or moth and caterpillar.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
respiration: animals
Different methods of respiration in animals.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
life cycle of the monarch butterfly
Life cycle of the monarch butterfly (
Danaus plexippus
).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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