Josh Clark

But at the same time, you're also competing with those same people, or those same caterpillars, I should say.

And that can be a big problem, too.

Yeah, pretty neat.

And this is where the terminology gets really confusing if you do any research on this.

So the pupa is often referred to as the form, the body form that the centipede or that the caterpillar is in as it enters the transformation.

Right.

Yes.

It's actually the life stage.

Like the caterpillar is the larval life stage.

The butterfly or the moth is the adult.

The pupa is the life stage in between.

But for all intents and purposes, you can also say that's a butterfly pupa or that's a moth pupa, right?

That's the easiest, most understandable part of it.

It starts to get really strange from there because the butterfly caterpillar, when it emerges from that fifth molt, it has a special kind of skin on it.

And over time, when it turns upside down and hangs from a leaf,

and begins its transformation.

That skin hardens, and it forms basically the protective layer that's going to protect that caterpillar-turned-butterfly as it undergoes its transformation.

And that's called a chrysalis.

But just butterfly caterpillars do that, right?

Not moths.