Caterpillars come in various colors and shapes to help camouflage themselves from predators. They spin a chrysalis, not a cocoon, when transforming into a butterfly. A caterpillar's life cycle includes 4 days in an egg, 2 weeks as a caterpillar eating leaves and vegetables, 10 days inside a chrysalis, and then 2-6 weeks as an adult butterfly. Caterpillars live on trees, bushes, or in dark areas where they can find food like leaves, twigs, tomatoes, and lettuce.

1. Beautiful Butterflies

2. Very Hungry Caterpillar Facts Unlike in the book caterpillars in real life are mainly colored to help them hind and confuse their enemies. Some even have body parts that look like thorns to scare away birds. In the book it says that caterpillar spins a cocoon, but that is when a caterpillar becomes a moth. Caterpillars spin a chrysalis when it becomes a butterfly .

3. Caterpillar Life Cycle

4. The Time it Takes The Caterpillar grows in the egg for about 4 days Caterpillars life before the chrysalis is about 2 weeks long Then it spins a chrysalis and is in there for about 10 days Then becomes a butterfly and lives from 2-6 weeks

5. What do Caterpillars Eat? Leaves and Smooth Twigs Tomatoes Lettuce

6. Home’s for Caterpillars Where they can find their food. Dark areas Tress and Leaves On or Under Bushes