Butterflies go through four main of life. The first stage is the egg stage by the pupa stage. As a pupa, or , the future butterfly eats as much as . As it grows, it it outer skin, or . This may happen four or five times. After a few weeks, the caterpillar the next stage of its life, the chrysalis stage. In the chrysalis, the caterpillar will liquefy into a soup of cells. Then, it will reorganize into a butterfly and the is complete. In later parts of the chrysalis stage, you can see the butterfly through the chrysalis.