Metamorphosis

Habitat and Environment

Greatest Threats

      The baby butterfly is from an egg. The egg is the size of a pinhead. The larva will chew its way out of the egg. The hatched larva eats its eggshell and the leaves of the host-plant, the wild cherry. The larva spins a silk chrysalis made from silk glands. Within a few hours after the adult butterfly emerges from the chrysalis the butterfly is ready to fly start the life cycle all over again.

     The butterfly lives mostly in woodlands and forest edges.

During the Winter

During the winter the butterflies hibernate.

   The butterflies greatest  threats are pesticides sprayed on plants to kill insects that eat the plants and changes to their environment and their forest habitat.

Lifespan

 The butterflies live 4-5 days after becoming an adult.