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Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
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Observe a caterpillar munching on leaves
Watch caterpillars eating vegetation.
Video: © Fun Travel TV (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Watch a caterpillar larva eat milkweed, form a pupa, and emerge as a monarch butterfly
Learn about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Monarch butterfly migration explained
Learn about the monarch butterfly, including its annual migration to Mexico.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Rinus Baak/Dreamstime.com
View the hatching of the cabbage white caterpillars from eggs
Time-lapse video, filmed over two days, of cabbage white caterpillars (Pieris...
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Markus Staab/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Disruptive markings provide protection for a clump of caterpillars.
E.S. Ross
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A mass of crawling caterpillars.
© Digital Vision/Getty Images
caterpillar of the mourning cloak butterfly
Caterpillar of the mourning cloak, or Camberwell beauty, butterfly (Nymphalis...
© Nikki Reicha and Kaleb Krein
spotted tussock caterpillar
Spotted tussock caterpillar (Lophocampa maculata).
E.S. Ross
armyworm
The armyworm (Pseudaletia unipuncta), the larva of an owlet moth (family...
William E. Ferguson
eastern tent caterpillars
Eastern tent caterpillars (Malacosoma americanum).
G. E. Hyde/The Natural History Photographic Agency
Caterpillars of the eastern tent caterpillar moth (Malacosoma americanum,...
Louis Quitt/Photo Researchers
Indian meal moth larva
Indian meal moth larva (Plodia interpunctella)
Scott Bauer—Agricultural Research Service/U.S. Department of Agriculture
Omnivorous looper (Sabulodes caberata) larva
William E. Ferguson
Processionary caterpillars (Thaumetopoea pityocampa)
Ingmar Holmasen
Silkworm larvae (genus Bombyx) feeding on mulberry leaves.
UPI/Bettmann Archive
Startle markings of a mature swallowtail butterfly larva (Papilio).
E.S. Ross
body plan of a male lepidopteran
Body plan of a generalized male adult butterfly or moth and caterpillar.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
respiration: animals
Different methods of respiration in animals.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
life cycle of the monarch butterfly
Life cycle of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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