The Metamorphosis of Butterflies

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	The Metamorphosis of Butterflies
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/875905db-3374-4006-a3ce-210a9ac50874/1331AD16-0105-4AB3-A123-41A9689D3F1A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/" href="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/" style="font-size: 11px;">content1.clipmarks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><DIV>As the diagram below shows, the complete metamorphosis of butterflies and moths involves four stages: 1. the egg, 2. the larva (caterpillar), 3. the pupa (also called chrysalis or cocoon) and 4. the adult.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><DIV align="center" width="100%"><DIV><STRONG>The butterfly lifecycle:</STRONG>
<IMG src="http://inlinethumb12.webshots.com/42955/2998621800104237032S600x600Q85.jpg" alt="Butterfly and moth lifecycles" /></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><DIV><STRONG>A very neat butterfly or moth in Chaddlewood, Plymouth, worked on this eggsellent piece of art:</STRONG>
<IMG src="http://inlinethumb40.webshots.com/43623/2352971960104237032S500x500Q85.jpg" alt="Butterfly or moth eggs" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><STRONG>Don’t get close to me! A poisonous, stinging Saddleback caterpillar:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><STRONG>A caterpillar in full pupation mode:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content1.clipmarks.com/img/EFDCFC38-6140-4540-AF60-7CCBACBC03B3" alt="Saddleback caterpillar" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content1.clipmarks.com/img/A32635D6-6372-4135-A2FF-60CBB7176AC6" alt="A caterpillar pupating" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><STRONG>A web of thousands of Eastern Tent caterpillars that took over Wyndham in upstate New York recently: </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content1.clipmarks.com/img/F9057A03-2008-426A-BABA-8F0E2F4F4081" alt="A garden infested by caterpillars" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content1.clipmarks.com/img/BA3ADA32-B89A-42A5-ABCB-634226E9B766" alt="A caterpillar web" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><STRONG>A butterfly emerging from its coccoon:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content1.clipmarks.com/img/49E17559-F0E4-449E-8E90-D92BA1EBA625" alt="A butterfly coming out" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><DIV><STRONG>Golden Birdwing (<EM>troides aeacus thomsoni</EM>) at the Butterfly Park in Bangkok, Thailand:</STRONG>
<IMG src="http://inlinethumb64.webshots.com/13247/2376790320104237032S500x500Q85.jpg" alt="Golden Birdwing" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><STRONG>a butterfly nursery (yes, there’s a place like that) that depicts the last two stages from pupa to butterfly:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content1.clipmarks.com/img/F3F52E7F-0A04-45DE-8302-8D8F27298506" alt="Butterfly nursery" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><STRONG>This little boy surely wants to be a beautiful butterfly:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/content1.clipmarks.com/img/90D0EAE5-9FDC-40A9-A115-9DD554EA6938" alt="Butterfly costume" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content1.clipmarks.com/content/EBAE0E13-59FF-4291-BA72-4DF8A346B799/"><DIV><STRONG>And so does his mommy:</STRONG>
<IMG src="http://inlinethumb60.webshots.com/35835/2548558170104237032S500x500Q85.jpg" alt="Butterfly dress" /></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1331AD16-0105-4AB3-A123-41A9689D3F1A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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