Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Forming a chrysalis

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Creator: Kathryn Walbert

Date created: July 27, 2004
License: This photograph copyright ©2004. All Rights Reserved

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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 15)

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butterfly larva forming a chrysalis

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The larva attaches itself by a pair of threads to the underside of a stick, branch, or leaf, and assumes a C-shape as it prepares to form a chrysalis.

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