There was a giant caterpillar,
More than ten-feet long,
Chomped whole trees instead of leaves,
It really was real wrong!
Yes that creeping caterpillar,
Really was a trooper,
Wrapped itself, with a tent,
And made a huge green pupa!
When it hatched,
We were so shocked,
What we saw was this…
An airplane size butterfly,
From the chrysalis!
Caterpillars are the larval forms of butterflies that hatch from butterfly eggs.
Caterpillars go through a metamorphosis inside a chrysalis as they change into butterflies.
A cocoon is a silk case usually made by the larva of moths and other insects, while a chrysalis is the hard skin of a caterpillar in which it will morph into a butterfly
Watch Mr. R.’s Butterfly Metamorphosis Song