How do caterpillar's reproduce???????/?
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caterpillars don't reproduce.\n\ncaterpillars is part of a stage of becoming a butterfly. Really, they are kids, and when they become a cocoon, they are teenagers. When they emerge out of their cocoon, they are like adults.\n\nIn other words, caterpillars are not ready to reproduce, or they aren't so developed yet.\n\nYet the only way the caterpillar population increases is if more butterflies make more eggs that will soon become caterpillars.
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Im pretty sure what you have are known as bagworms. They are actually caterpillars, not worms and will one day emerge as moths. Well actually it is only the males that emerge, the females will spend the rest of their lives in the "bag" as a wingless adult. The males fly to them, by following pheromones and they mate. The female then drops the eggs to the ground and the young climb up the nearest tree, usually the same one and begin feeding.\n\nJust look up Bagworms...........pretty cool critters.\nThe damage they do is not only by cutting up pieces of the needles and gluing them together with salivary silk, but the young caterpillars eat quite a bit, and could defoliate the host tree if they are too densely populated.\n\nHope this helps!
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You friend is wrong. Some worms continue to live as two worms if you cut them up, or the living part grows again.\n\nBut if you cut up a snake, you break its backbone. No creature survives a cut up back bone. Yes, it dies.
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Well, some do and some probably do not. It is just like asking somebody if they remember being born or being a baby. You really can't remember. But, a lot of people can remember childhood and being a toddler.\n\nThey probably do remember muching leaves and turning into a butterfly, but no one really knows for sure, right?\n\nI'm sure they wouldn't think caterpillars are a different species because they used to be caterpillars. That's like someone saying,"I think babies are a different species then humans." You know that you used to be a baby. Even if you only remember bits and pieces.\n\nI hope this has helped you!
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Reproduction is usually sexual. Males are usually smaller than females (often very much smaller) and often have a characteristically bent tail for holding the female for copulation. During copulation, one or more chitinized spicules move out of the cloaca and are inserted into genital pore of the female. Amoeboid sperm crawl along the spicule into the female worm.\n\nEggs may be embryonated or unembryonated when passed by the female, meaning that their fertilized eggs may not yet be developed. In free-living roundworms, the eggs hatch into larva, which eventually grow into adults; in parasitic roundworms, the life cycle is often much more complicated.
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I would think that things gradually evolved over time.  There must have been enough "almost" butterflies to pro-create with the butterfly to have offspring.  So I feel it would be like being in the current of the stream and the stream would have kept pushing forward maybe a little different but in the same general direction.  Just a guess..  Good question.
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When the egg and the sperm fuse (in sexual reproduction) a single cell is formed.  That cell divides and divides and keeps on dividing until a full sized critter or plant is formed.\n\nSingle celled creatures reproduce by splitting in half to make two new critters.
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they lay eggs in clusters! many of them. and yes..they do have some sort of sex but not the version that you have in your mind.
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Nearly all animals undergo some form of sexual reproduction. Adults are diploid or occasionally polyploid. They have a few specialized reproductive cells, which undergo meiosis to produce smaller motile spermatozoa or larger non-motile ova. These fuse to form zygotes, which develop into new individuals.\n\nMany animals are also capable of asexual reproduction. This may take place through parthenogenesis, where fertile eggs are produced without mating, or in some cases through fragmentation.\n\nA zygote initially develops into a hollow sphere, called a blastula, which undergoes rearrangement and differentiation. In sponges, blastula larvae swim to a new location and develop into a new sponge. In most other groups, the blastula undergoes more complicated rearrangement. It first invaginates to form a gastrula with a digestive chamber, and two separate germ layers - an external ectoderm and an internal endoderm. In most cases, a mesoderm also develops between them. These germ layers then differentiate to form tissues and organs.\n\nAnimals grow by indirectly using the energy of sunlight. Plants use this energy to turn air into simple sugars using a process known as photosynthesis. These sugars are then used as the building blocks which allow the plant to grow. When animals eat these plants (or eat other animals which have eaten plants), the sugars produced by the plant are used by the animal. They are either used directly to help the animal grow, or broken down, releasing stored solar energy, and giving the animal the energy required for motion. This process is known as glycolysis.
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you cant tell sex till light changes ..or you till\nchange light artificially.They wont get pollinated unless you plant them near pollinating marujuana male which chances are low in the wild.Just put them outside and pluck those males as they appear
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Danged interesting.  I will look into this.  I have said myself that the future belongs to the best breeders of any species.  Why are the pandas and white tigers endangered and the racoon and rat thriving? Adaptability and reproduction.  It's like WHO do you think are going to inherit the earth? The little WASP couple in the gated community with one or two perfect little lily white children or the Mexican couple with eight kids who will live anywhere and do anything to survive?  Whose kids are going to be the most capable of adapting and thriving? The robust little peasants or the little hot house plants?
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Fertilization.\nOr are you asking about what happens in Prophase 1 of Meiosis? Homologous chromosomes, one from each parent pair.
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The length of these journeys far exceeds the lifetime of a Monarch (lives four days as egg, two weeks as caterpillar, ten days as chrysalis, and two to six weeks as a butterfly). \n\n\nMetamorphosis\nThe life cycle of a Monarch includes a change of form called complete metamorphosis. The Monarch goes through four radically different stages:\n\nThe eggs are laid by the females during spring and summer breeding months. \nThe eggs hatch, revealing worm-like larva, the caterpillars. The caterpillars consume their egg cases, then feed on milkweed, and sequester substances called cardenolides, related to the cardiac glycoside digitalis. During the caterpillar stage, Monarchs store energy in the form of fat and nutrients to carry them through the non-feeding pupa stage. \nIn the pupa or chrysalis stage, the caterpillar spins a silk pad on a twig, leaf, etc. and hangs from this pad by its last pair of prolegs. It hangs upside down in the shape of a 'J', and then molts, leaving itself encased in an articulated green exoskeleton. At this point, hormonal changes occur, leading to the development of a butterfly. \nThe mature butterfly emerges after about two weeks.
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Everything about a life form is decided by DNA from the colour of it's fur or skin to it's size. This is what our parents pass on to us. However, if this is not copied properly when it is passed on to an egg or sperm cell, which becomes a baby, then the baby may have a different characteristic from the rest of its species. This is called a mutation. If this mutation gives the animal an advantage over other animals in it's species- for example if it makes a moth brown instead of white so it can blend in on trees more, and is less likely to be eaten by predators, then that animal is more likely to survive. If it then mates and passes on it's mutated DNA to more offspring then they are more likely to survive so slowly the white moths would be eaten where the brown would not, and the species has 'evolved' to be brown. Every animal you can think of has been formed by tiny mutations over millions of years. We owe evolution quite a lot!
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It is called regeneration. Worms can do it because they have more than one heart. If you separate the worm a part with a heart in it will keep living.\n\n-Trey
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they reproduce asexually thru budding\nthat is, every daughter cell is an exact replica of the parent cell
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Sea cucumbers can reproduce either asexually by budding or sexually by releasing gametes into the water.  Check out Wikipedia...they have some basic info.