LAGUNA BEACH – Decades after his father first pointed out a caterpillar’s cocoon ... can preserve the beauty of a butterfly for hundreds of years. But the art is far more than mounted ...

Butterflies are perhaps most famous for the process by which a plump little caterpillar transforms into a winged work of art. But they ... a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.) ...

How does a caterpillar rearrange itself into a butterfly? What happens inside a chrysalis or cocoon? First, the caterpillar digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues.

Scientists have discovered a caterpillar that uses tree resin—rather than the more commonly used silk—to build a hard, multi-walled, possibly poisonous cocoon. “No other butterfly or moth ...

When a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, the transformation is so ... After the hornworms built cocoons and emerged as moths -- a process that involves the reorganization of both brain and ...