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Kathryn Walbert
Date created
June 23, 2008
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  • The world of a butterfly: The transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is one of nature's most amazing feats. These photographs show the development of an eastern black swallowtail butterfly from egg to larva to chrysalis to adult. (Page 8)

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butterfly larva

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In its third instar (growth stage), the eastern black swallowtail caterpillar takes on its familiar black and green stripes and yellow eye spots.