The lifecycle of a Painted Butterfly has four stages and takes approximately 21 days. It is an amazing transformation (memamorphisis) from an egg laid on a leaf, to hatching as a tiny caterpillar that grows and grows, to wrapping itself into a chrysalis (cacoon) and finally emerging as a butterfly that dries its wings in the sun before flying.

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