While the insect retains the form of a caterpillar, each moult merely exchanges the old cuticle for a similar new one. But when the time comes for metamorphosis, caterpillar clothes are exchanged ...

After that, life for the little caterpillar gets oozy ... their chrysalis turns transparent in their final days of metamorphosis. Now, fully formed, it's time to hit the road.

The most common (and popular) examples of metamorphosis are the transformation of a tadpole to a frog and a caterpillar to a butterfly. But there are certainly other animals that go through a ...

Caterpillars spin silky carpets and seatbelt-like structures to protect themselves during metamorphosis. Credit: ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c00237 ...

Champlin said, ‘With the caterpillar, many scientists have studied a hormone that causes metamorphosis to advance and another hormone that represses metamorphosis, but have never really asked ...