Last time, we went into the details of the growth process of the butterfly, it goes through three stages before it becomes a butterfly such as: An egg- A caterpillar - A chrysalis, this all equates into it being a butterfly thereby making it four life cycle stages; Egg – Caterpillar – Chrysalis – Butterfly. You can find the post below. The caterpillar changes into a chrysalis, how is this done? It is done within the caterpillar, it recognizes it is time for change and so it begins to form a covering from its own juices, it begins to form a covering from inside out, from what it has built overtime, from its own potential and then, spin a chrysalis around itself where it can hide for sometime before it emerges to be the butterfly it was meant to be, some spend a considerably long time inside the chrysalis ranging from days to weeks to months and even years pending on when it is most favourable for it to hatch, environmental factors determines when it will hatch. ...