Remarkable Time-Lapse: Watch Caterpillars Transform Into Butterflies
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You’re watching a caterpillar transform into a butterfly … through a window on its pupa.
Graduate student Aaron Pomerantz captured this time-lapse video that covered eight days of a butterfly’s metamorphosis.
Here you are seeing the structural color formation of the wing.
The window was created by making a small incision into the side of a caterpillar … and removing a few cells that would form the forewing in a butterfly.
The incision doesn’t hurt the caterpillars.
And despite missing a forewing, the 3-winged butterflies are healthy and can fly without any issues.
