💡 Trivia Before Turning Into A Butterfly, A Caterpillar Basically Digests Itself

[Beatriz9]

One thing that you never want to do? Cut open a butterfly's chrysalis.

First, butterfly caterpillars don't make silk cocoons; their bodies actually form the hard wall of the chrysalis. So, you'd be essentially cutting into a caterpillar. And if you did, you'd be subjected to a load of goo seeping out onto you that used to be said caterpillar.

Yes, it turns out that when a caterpillar transforms into a beautiful butterfly, it literally breaks itself down to mush to complete the metamorphosis. The caterpillar does this by digesting itself, releasing enzymes that break down their tissue.

In this soup, there are a few body parts that don't break down completely, called imaginal discs. These discs use the high protein materials floating around them to start a kind of rapid cell division, which begins to create the basis of the butterfly.

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