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This beautiful morpho butterfly is from Central America. This is an adult. It only lives for 15 days, in which time it has to find a mate.
The female morpho butterfly lays eggs on leaves of the plant that the caterpillar will like to eat when it hatches.
Male and female butterfly breed. Female produces eggs.
The life cycle of a butterfly
pupa (for butterflies the pupa is called a chrysalis).
A morpho caterpillar Moults several times as it grows. Each time it changes shape and colour.
Fully grown adult butterfly with wings.
(for butterflies the larva
is called a caterpillar).
After a few more weeks the adult morpho butterfly emerges from the chrysalis.
When it has finished growing, the caterpillar finds a suitable place to pupate. It changes into a pupa.
Many animals, for example
the butterflies shown in picture , begin as eggs and have to be hidden from sight. Then they grow into one form (a caterpillar, for example) and finally change to another form (the butterfly). At each stage the plant or animal needs a different way of surviving.
If they survive the first days and weeks, they grow rapidly and are soon more able to defend themselves.
  The life cycle of a butterfly, showing the many different forms and adaptations that it takes on during its life.
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