animal life cycles [animated pictures and text] [butterfly] [appear]

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  Stage 1 :
  The adult female butterfly lays
  her eggs on the underside of a
  leaf to protect them from
  predators.
• 
  Stage 2 :
  From each egg emerges a
  caterpillar which begins to
  feed on the vegetation it
  finds around.
• 
  Stage 3 :
  The grown caterpillar sticks
  itself to the underside of a leaf
  and covers itself in a hard
  coating.
• 
  Stage 4 :
  The hard coating begins to
  crack and eventually a newly
  formed butterfly emerges
  into the world.
• 
  Stage 5 :
  The adult butterfly then starts
  the whole life cycle process
  off again by beginning to find
  a mate.

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