The document describes the life cycle of a monarch butterfly, which includes four stages: egg, larva (caterpillar), chrysalis (pupa), and adult. It lays sticky eggs on milkweed leaves that hatch into caterpillars. The caterpillar molts several times as it eats milkweed leaves. It forms a chrysalis where metamorphosis occurs, emerging as an adult butterfly that pumps fluid into its wings. As an adult, it has wings, legs, antennae and a proboscis to drink nectar. Monarch butterflies migrate south each fall for winter in a warm climate, traveling up to 4,000 miles.