a caterpillars cocoon when it is changing into a butterfly?
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You could actually get a very fine fiber optic inside the cocoon's tip and video whats going on through the whole process. I think I once saw such a video about 8-9 years ago, I can't recall more now, but if I do, I'll let you know.
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It's an aquatic insect nymph.  Can't say just what it is without a photo.  Dragonfly nymphs are very goofy looking...
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Kathy, you are so fortunate. Your father is sending you hope and letting you know that he is ok. Butterflys symbolize transformation. This is what has happened to your dad, transformation. Cherish these moments, and the next time it happens tell him you love him and are glad that he is ok. This is the way that spirit works.\n\nBless you.
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My guess is that you've found a golden torotise beetle (Charidotella sp.)\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/8827/bgpage\n\nThey are related to ladybugs but not really a part of that group. Dead beetles quickly lose the gold.
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Many species of insects have evolved a strategy called diapause. Diapause is a suspension of development that can occur at the embryonic, larval, pupal, or adult stage, depending on the species. In some species, diapause is facultative and occurs only when induced by environmental conditions; in other species the diapause period has become an obligatory part of the life cycle. The latter is often seen in temperate-zone insects, where diapause is induced by changes in the photoperiod (the relative lengths of day and night). The day length when 50% of the population has entered diapuase is called the critical day length, and it is usually quite sudden. Insects entering diapuse when the day length falls below this threshold are called long day insects. Those insects that develop normally when there are only a few hours of sunlight and that enter diapuse when exposed to longer days are called short-day insects. The critical day length is a genetically determined property.\n\nDiapause is not a physiological response brought about by harsh conditions. Rather, it is brought about by token stimuli that presage a change in the environment. Diapause begins before the actual severe conditions arise. Diapause is especially important in temperate zone insects that overwinter. Embryos of the silkworm moth Bombyx mori overwinter as embryos, entering diapuse just before segmentation. The gypsy moth Lymantia dispar initiates its diapause as a fully formed larva, ready to hatch as soon as diapause ends. Other insects experience diapause as eggs, pupae, or even as adults.
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If you mean the biological process, then these are the sites:\nfor definitions look at\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-33,GGLD:en&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:metamorphosis\nFor other information\nMetamorphosis in a process in biology by which individual physically develops after birth or hatching involving significant change in form as well as growth and differentiation. It usually accompanies a change of habitat or of habits but may occur without such change. It was once thought that in those cases where the animal's habitat remains unchanged metamorphosis followed a series of forms representing evolutionary ancestors of the species in question (see ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny), but this is no longer thought to be true.\n\nThe first type of metamorphosis is illustrated by many insects and by amphibians. Immature dragonflies are aquatic though the adults are flying insects, and frogs undergo a metamorphosis from an aquatic tadpole to an amphibious adult form. Change of habits is illustrated by the transformation of the free-swimming young of many aquatic invertebrates into sessile adults (eg sea squirts), and the development of butterflies and moths from caterpillars with chewing mouthparts into flying insects with sucking mouthparts.\n\nThe second type is illustrated by many crustacean species, whose young undergo significant physical metamorphosis without changing habits or habitat significantly.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_%28biology%29\n\n\nIf you are referring to the work of Kafka by this name, then see these:\nwww.sparknotes.com/lit/metamorph/\nwww.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/metamorphosis/
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try this link:\nhttp://www.imagesfromnature.net/photos/butterflies/2001/pages/butterflies2001_009_m.html
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Moths are less colourful than butterfly, they are coloured like dead leaves or tree barks(not all of them). They can be known easily by looking at their antennae, butterflies have thin, thread-like antennae, while moth's atennae can be straight or feathery. Some of them have short, stabbing mouthparts Others, which have none at all, cannot eat and only live long enough to reproduce. Not all moths are dull in colour, a day-flying moth from Madagascar looks a lot like a butterfly but it is a moth.  Not all moths are vegetarian, several swallowtails suck up the rotting flesh of animals. Vampire Moths from Asia has a dagger-like mouthpart that it uses to suck the blood of its vintim, including humans.\nA wing of a moth and a butterfly are same, they revel thousands of scales overlapping each other, each has different sizes, shape and colour, this is what allows moths and butterflies indentify each other.\nMoths mostly go out when it is dark, to prevent predators such as birds from eating it.
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The most common metamorphosis in ancient mythology is a god or goddess changing themselves (or their appearance, anyway) into an animal of some sort, generally in order to fool a human.  Some of the stories are fascinating, like Leda and the swan, where Jupiter morphed himself into a swan, and Leda gave birth to an egg from which sprang the twins Castor and Pollux.  Apparently he managed to transform some of her basic functions too, for her to give birth to an egg!
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It's a bagworm.  I've seen thousands of them on my own shrubs and as far as the shrub goes, it isn't a good thing.  Bagworms will destroy the shrubs they are living on.  Luckily they infest conifers and arborvitae.  They use the needles from the particular plant they are  infesting for their cocoons and emerge as moths.  Only moths make cocoons.  And since they are found all over the world and the world has quite a variety of conifers to be inhabited by these pests, their cocoons will look very different from each other.  If you wish to see some of the different cocoons made by bagworms, please follow the link given below.
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Yes,the woolybear caterpillar! Amazing as it seems they do seem to prove correct! Sadly,the stupid ground-hog we have here in PA is usually more right than wrong! Sorry everyone!
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Most frogs hide in the mud, I think, but most insects usually die off.  The new ones come from eggs buried in the ground.\n\nMonarch butterflies migrate to a few wild places in Mexico and winter there.
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You could start out by comparing the beginning of you education to a the cocoon which starts the life of a butterfly and now you can describe yourself as having emerged as a beautiful butterfly now that you have completed your education----------in between you can speak about the beauty and grace of a butterfly ------the free spirit-the guiet nature------hope this helps
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It could be a Luna Moth caterpillar. Here is website that describes and shows a picture of one:\n\nhttp://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek020801.html\n\nHere is a site with a picture of a tomato worm:\n\nhttp://www.kalilily.net/weblog/04/07/27/203436.html
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The production of cultivated silk is known as sericulture. The stages of production are as follows:\n\n1)The silk moth lays eggs.\n2)When the eggs hatch the caterpillars are fed mulberry leaves. \n3)When the silkworms are about 35 days old they are 10,000 times heavier than when they hatched. They are now ready to spin a silk cocoon. \n4)The silk is produced in two glands in the silkworm’s head and the forced out in liquid form through openings called spinnerets. \n5)The silk solidifies when it comes in contact with the air. \n6)The silkworm spins approximately 1 mile of filament and completely encloses itself in a cocoon in about 2 or three days. \n7)The silkworm then goes through stages and changes into a moth; however, the silkworm is usually killed with heat before it reaches this stage. The silkworms are killed because once they reach the moth stage, the moth secretes a fluid to dissolve the silk so it can emerge from the cocoon. This damages the cocoon and the silk and the silk then becomes a lower quality. Some silkworms are allowed to live to be used for breeding. \n8)The silk is obtained from the undamaged cocoons by brushing the cocoon to find the outside ends of the filament. \n9)The silk filaments are then wound on a reel. One cocoon contains approximately 1,000 yards of silk filament. The silk at this stage is known as raw silk. \n10)A yarn can now be formed by combining several filaments of silk.
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About butterflies: (Are you familiar with the greek story of Demeter, Persiphone and Hades? ) Well if you're not it goes a little bit like this: Demeter (mother nature) has a daughter (Persiphone.) One day when she (Persiphone) went out for a walk, Hades (king of the underworld) fell in love with her and rose to the Earth and abducted her.Once in the underworld Hades fed Persiphone with a pomegranate (fruit of the dead) and so she bound to him forever!!! Demeter did not like what had happened and she was very sad and with her sadness nature began to die out. But Hermes (clever lower god) managed to get an agreement between Hades and Demeter in an attempt to save life on Earth! Persiphone would spend three months with Hades and the remaining nine months with Demeter (hence we have three months of winter--when Demeter is sad because her daughter has left her) \nSO, for your story, you could write about how Mother Nature created the beautiful butterflies as a gift to her daughter. The daughter had just recently gotten married and Mother Nature wanted her daughter to keep something of her so that she could feel her close. Mother Nature knew how her daughter loved rainbows and colours, and so she made them of beautiful colours, and able to fly so that they could dance in the sky and be an amazing sight to watch and be entertained by. Mother Nature wanted her daughter to take them back to her house. The daughter was very happy, but a short time later she was saddened when she found that the butterflies had not survived the trip. The next time she went to visit her mother, she told her of what had happened and so Mother Nature agreed to make more butterflies for her but this time she would keep them in a safe place until the next time she would return. ...\nor something like that....
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Yes, I did. I kept caterpillars in an empy butter container (with holes) of course and it went very well. My teacher even gave me an award for doing it. :)