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A monarch caterpillar, hanging upside down, has just split from its skin and has transformed into a chrysalis. If you look closely, you can see that a wing pattern has already formed. So amazing!

Monarch Butterfly emerging from it's chrysalis

White caterpillar eggs have a hole in the middle of the egg and a white web around the egg. Many small white eggs next to each other on green leaf.

Beautiful brown caterpillar crawling on tree leaf

Apple tree damaged by caterpillars of Brown tail moth Euproctis chrysorrhoea. Eaten leaves and damaged young, immature fruit. This is a pest of increasing importance in orchards, gardens and roadside alleys.

PINE PROCESSIONARY MOTH - (THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA)

Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis Hanging on Leaf Macro, Selective Focus with Copy Space

$Wingspan 44-50 mm.\n\nAlthough there are a number of records of this species dating back to the 19th century, the adults are very difficult to distinguish from the Mullein (Cucullia verbasci), except by genitalia determination, and many of these records are now known to be erroneous.\n\nThere are at least two more modern confirmed records, both from Swanage in Dorset, in 1949 and 1994.\n\nIt occurs from Europe to Asia and feeds mainly on figwort (Scrophularia spp.)$

Girl looks at a monarch butterfly caterpillar that is begining to turn into a chrysalis. After it increases its mass about 2,000 times it undergoes metamorphosis to become a monarch butterfly.

A recently emerged blue morpho butterfly (morpho menelaus) hanging from its chrysalis.

Thaumetopoea pityocampa nest in the pine

A close up of a Monarch Chrysalis in the garden.

Group of silkworms eating mulberry leaves.

The larvae of moths are covered with bristles and look terrible

Taking a close look at a Yellow Woolly Bear Caterpillar. (Spilosoma virginica)

Processionary caterpillars on a pine in the forest

Pupa of the Yellow Glassy Tiger Chrysalis, the butterflies hardened outer protective layer in a beautiful gold and black pattern.

A closeup shot of a monarch butterfly pupa hanging from a leaf

$Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae. A. crataegi is widespread and common. Its range extends from northwest Africa in the west to Transcaucasia and across the Palearctic to Siberia and Japan in the east. In the south, it is found in Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. It is not present in the British Isles and northern Scandinavia. \nDescription:\nThe black-veined white has a wingspan of 51 to 70 mm. Females are commonly larger than males. The upper side of both forewings and hindwings is a translucent white boldly veined with black. The underside is similar in the male but the female has brown veining. Moreover, the female loses most of her scales by rubbing her wings together, resulting almost-transparent.\nBiology:\nThe flight period of the black-veined white is between April and July. The adults are quite social and their abundance varies greatly from year to year. The eggs are laid on the food plant, usually a member of the rose family Rosaceae and often on trees and bushes.\nThe eggs are laid in groups of 30 to 100. They take about three weeks to hatch. The caterpillars tend to remain in a group with a communal larval web. This species has one generation each year. The caterpillars overwinter communally in a webbing tent with entwined leaves. Caterpillars feed close together on the leaves of the food plant at first, before dispersing in the later developmental stages to other parts of the tree. \nThe pupal stage lasts about three weeks.\n\nDistribution and habitat:\nIt occurs in open forest, grazing land, orchards. lanes, gardens, meadows and thickets throughout most of Europe. This species is extinct in the British Isles (source Wikipedia). \n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2006.$

This caterpillars are very beautiful with feathers that bloom around their bodies with very attractive colors, but behind their beauty they are dangerous, because these feathers can cause skin blisters when touched.

Caterpillar of the box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis) on boxwood Buxus sempervirens. Close-up of striped pest on frech leaves. Biggest pest for Buxus Sempervirens, European box, or boxwood invasive

A monarch caterpillar, being raised indoors, hangs upside down and splits its skin as it transforms into a chrysalis.

Transformation of Male Common Archduke butterfly emerging from chrysalis ( Lexias pardalis jadeitina ) hanging on twig with clipping path

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