Stages and Life Cycles
This is the first stage of a monarch's life cycle.
What is an egg?
What are antennae?
This is the plant that is a host to monarchs.
What is milkweed?
This is the process where an animal sheds the outer layer of its body, revealing a new one underneath in order to grow.
What is molt or molting?
This is the adult form of the monarch.
What is a butterfly?
These are the six jointed legs that are attached to the thorax of both the caterpillar and the butterfly.
What are truelegs?
This is the seasonal movement of insects or other animals often in large numbers, over long distances.
What is migration or to migrate?
This is an organism that shelters another organism, known as the guest, inside or on its body.
What is a host?
This is the life stage after a larva where the butterfly changes into the adult.
What is a chrysalis or pupa?
These are the leg-like appendages on a caterpillar that help it move and attach to surfaces.
What are prolegs?
This is the location that monarchs will go on their migration.
What is Mexico?
This is an organism that lives in or on another organism.
What is a parasite?
This is the immature form of an insect.
What is a larva or caterpillar?
This is the hook-like structure at the end of a moth or butterfly pupa that help it attach to a twig or surface.
What is a cremaster?
This is the length of time that monarchs will live during their winter migration.
What is eight months?
This is the life cycle that insects go through that involves a series of distinct states and significant change from larva to adult.
What is complete metamorphosis?
This is the stage in a the life cycle of an insect between two successive molts.
What is an instar?
This is the small button a caterpillar spins just before it pupates and becomes a chrysalid.
What is a silkpad?
This is the location where western monarch populations will overwinter.
What is Southern California?
This is what a caterpillar does before it becomes a "J".
What is a walkabout?