Monarch Hatching- Lifecycle
Tell me about the lifecycle of a Monarch Butterfly: - Oral narration by M, LeadFlower & Ninja It starts as an egg. The egg comes from the Monarch butterfly. Each monarch lays one egg on a Milkweed leaf so the egg will survive, and when the caterpillar hatches it won't have to crawl all over the place to find food. It's already on it. The caterpillar will shed its skin five times, and each time it will get bigger. Once it reaches a limit or something, it will stop eating and will hang up into a J shape for a while, and then like the skin splits out and it splits its old skin off and the new comes out, and once the old skin gets to where its feet are hanging, and once there, it will spin around until the skin comes off completely. Once it's off, it will hang there. The chrysalis is a light green and around the top there are little gold dots. And then when it's ready to hatch, i...
