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What animals become butterflies?

What animals become butterflies?

When caterpillars are two to four weeks old they begin making a chrysalis, or cocoon. Their cocoons hang from a stick or tree. While inside the cocoon their bodies transform into butterflies or moths – growing antennae, developing wings, and their mouthparts are transformed.

What animals turn into something else?

Some insects, fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms, and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is often accompanied by a change of nutrition source or behavior.

What animals eat frogs?

Common avian predators of frogs include ducks, geese, swans, wading birds, gulls, crows, ravens and hawks. Frogs are also at risk of becoming a meal for garter snakes, water moccasins and other swimming snakes.

What else transforms like butterfly?

Ants, bees and beetles go through the same metamorphosis stages as butterflies. However, the metamorphosis of termites is considered an incomplete process, because the animals do not go through the chrysalis stage.

What else transforms like Butterfly?

How many stages does a frog have?

A frog goes through five stages of life. In each stage, it changes and grows. Metamorphosis is another word for the changes an animal makes during its life cycle.

How are frog and butterfly life cycles similar?

The similarities are: 1) Both life cycles start with an egg. 2) Both life cycles are three-stage life cycles. Other than these two, there’s no more similarities unless you use general similarities like both life cycles’ young goes through a same life cycle as its adult or both life cycles are insects etc. Hope it helped!

What do you call a giraffe when it’s a baby?

Male giraffes are called ‘Bulls’, female giraffes are called ‘Cows’ and baby giraffes are called ‘Calves’.

How are giraffes adapted to live in the wild?

Giraffes have amazing adaptions that help them with their lifestyle in the wild. Because giraffes grow to a very tall height, it gives them access to a level of foliage beyond reach of all other large browsing animals all except possibly, the elephant. Along with their height, giraffes have an incredible array of adaptations.

How long does it take for a giraffe to reproduce?

Reproduction 1 Estrus cycle: 15 days 2 Breeding occurs throughout the year (Bercovitch and Berry 2009b). 3 Births occur throughout the year, though some occur seasonally (Dagg 2014) May be influenced by rainfall, food availability, and other conditions helpful to female giraffe.