Monarch Butterfly Metamorphosis time-lapse FYV 

I remember in Kindergarten, my teacher bought a couple of caterpillars online, as well as food and a cage. I remember every day we would check their progress, and when they started the process of metomorphosis, the entire class (including me) were amazed. Then I think it was a few weeks before school let off, they hatched and on the last day of school we released them. I will never forget that experience!

Every creature has to struggle to reach its full potential.

I watch videos like this to get me motivated to finish my biology degree

I worked at a butterfly pavilion for 4 years and this process never ceased to amaze me... you go you funky little monarch

Sort of creepy but nice.

Insects go through the most incredible changes between infancy and adulthood. The pupal stage is particularly amazing. Inside the pupa's shell is goop with DNA. That's it. The larval animal that went into that shell is no more. It dissolved. Essentially, it died. Soon, the goop reorganizes itself into something totally different, and soon after that, the adult insect emerges, looking totally unrecognizable compared to its previous form.

There are no words that can express how amazing and perfect God's creativity is.

A slow worm wraps itself in a cocoon with no cognitive thought as to why, and it emerges one of the most beautiful creatures in the natural world. Truly magnificent.

extreme puberty

This video is a thing of beauty. A small piece of nature, in all her glory. There is so much of nature that we fail to see and when I personally see something like this, I find it truly beautiful and breathtaking. Thank you for the post.

I dont know why, but i got emotional after watching this. I am a student of Zoology and i admire this world but there are people totally unaware of this asset and are destroying it ruthlessly. May god bring them on right track.

My Monarch butterfly came out 20 minutes ago and it's gorgeous. Next year will be better....I want my tiny garden to burst with life....❤️. I'm so happy 😊...

That caterpillar is ballin' now, flappin its wings and shit.

It can't get any more alien than this and yet this is a creature of our own planet!. How cool is that

Everytime I see a butterfly flying by me, I have nothing but admiration of them for not long ago, it was a humbly n slowly crawling caterpillar n now it can fly with beauty n grace. Just the sights of these little n fragile but amazingly beautiful lives is PURE AWESOME !

I remember I would watch this with my brother about 7 or so years ago when we were little kids and we loved it so much with the music and the visuals. I just wish I could go back, to when life was easier. 7 years and still amazing.

Congratulations! Your Caterpie evolved into Metapod!

Caterpie is evolving

I feel just like 👍this cattapillar. God bless new beginnings 🙏in life. Wishing everyone safe and positive journeys 🙏

This world is so bizarre when you really think about it, here we are looking for aliens when they're all right in front of us.

When I was like 6 I was so captivated by butterflies that my mom got me this little kit thing and it was sent with a little book on how to find and safely handle a monarch caterpillar and what time to look for them. I found one and it came with some milkweed leaves and I let this thing hang in this little expandable habitat with sticks and leaves in it and I would watch this little dude eat leaves. And finally the moment had arrived, I come home to a cocoon. I could hardly contain myself I watched for days waiting for the butterfly to emerge. He did, I released him back into the wild. I don't know why I'm saying all of this. But, it really stuck out to me how nature could be so complex and beautiful. Of course, at that age, I just knew that Nature was pretty and it should be kept that way. My mom did the same thing with Ladybugs and I also once hatched a praying mantis egg sack... except that I did not properly seal the habitat and they all came out and almost completely covered one wall in the house. We got most of them out into the yard safely, though. I always thought that I'd be an entomologist one day. I never really followed that dream. I still love this stuff, though. I hope I can provide the same kind of enjoyment and understanding of the beauty of nature to my son who was just born 5 months ago.

I once took two moth caterpillars from a park in my town and put them in a glass container with some grass and a stick to cocoon on. One of them cocooned and it was so cool, but the other one ate the cocoo and the cocooned caterpillar inside died and I was like, "Wow what an asshole."

Can there be anything more magical than this? It is just a beautiful glimpse of how life evolves.

Nature is a beautiful and complicated thing

It’s so pretty how they are born with all those legs and colors and are practically reborn with wings and different colors. It’s beautiful

*flashing spongebob wormy episode in my mind*

Insects are absolutely beautiful most times, and we miss them in all their glory

Thanks for sharing your amazing video my friend...💕

butterflies are truly amazing creatures.

Such a marvelous & miraculous thing to see a caterpillar metaphormosized into a beautiful butterfly.

The pictures don't do the chrysalis justice tbh. That little band towards the top literally looks like someone painted very delicate touches of molten gold there. ❤️❤️❤️ God is an artist. 😆

2:20 nice

Life is weird.

This made me think about life - and the thoughts were so beautiful I teared up a bit.

1:30 me trying to squeeze into a sleeping bag XD

This is a super cool video of a real caterpillar transforming into a butterfly!

it skins itself when it's pushing the shell it's making down it's body. wtf

To think this whole process is natural... Think about all the other possible life forms out there in the universe!

It’s Gross And amazing at the same time

I noticed a beautiful caterpillar in my garden a few days ago, i used check up on it everyday and I was noticing that it shortened with time, and one day it became hard, and I was wondering what happened to it, at that point I googled about it and I came to know that it's going under a process called chrysalis and will eventually become a butterfly 😭🤍 I'm extremely happy and lucky to witness all these glorious things. I'm waiting patiently for it to become a beautiful butterfly 🦋

I was waiting for Beedrill to cut that Metapod open and then light would come from the wound when it evolves into a Butterfree. But this was cool too.

This is my first time with a butterfly habitat! It has been amazing! God's beautiful creation! The delicate details throughout the cycle.....breathtaking!

Love the beautiful butterfly;. soothing to watch.

The Monarch butterfly is amazing from birth to death. The metamorphosis itself, along with their 4 generations, where the last one makes that great migration. I’m fortunate to live where I see them often throughout the summer. Last year on my back deck, one hatched from its cocoon and flew just a short distance, sat on my knee drying its new wings. What an awesome sight that was to see such a young one so close. And eventually he flew away, now free to explore the sky.

What? Caterpie is evolving!

did u know the caterpillars liquify in the cocoon, then turns into the butterfly

butterflies are the coolest living creature. They start from that shy, not super cute crawling thing to a fierce and beautiful flying masterpiece.

How did this get on my reccomend s but it's still good for a 4year video

You never know how beautiful an disgusting something birthing itself could be.

Existence is mind-blowing and even things that happen all the time are full of awe-inspiring beauty. To experience reality is to trip balls on this psychedelic universe

The transformation is incredible! To be an ugly worm who could only walk and then transform into something beautiful that can fly! If I could be anything I wanted after I died it would definitely be a butterfly 🦋 ✨️

my mind is actually blown tbh i would have never thought it pushed its way out of its skin like that dang :) love nature

Weird yet beautiful nature

That's insane! I always thought they made a chrysalis that they chilled inside of I have no idea they *became* a chrysalis

He done changed his swag 😳😳😳

So fantastic 🐛

Beautiful transformation

Fun fact! You can tell a Monarch butterfly's sex by their wings. Males have a spot, females do not. The one in the lab setting that emerged was female and the one on the flower was male. Wayyyy back in elementary school we did a whole lesson on Monarchs and kept them in our classroom from caterpillar to butterfly to release later on. These are fascinating little creatures.

How can you not appreciate nature after watching this video?

it's crazy the fact that one of the least attractive creatures turns into one of the most beautiful things to ever exist

One of nature’s greatest miracles and one of its biggest mysteries

Beautiful.

That is so beautiful. Isn’t nature amazing.

There was a video of a little girl watching this and all I remember is she said “I need some bug sauce in a cocoon” I love little kids

Did you know? Butterflies have to dry there wings in the sun before flying.

What ever that thing is, IT MUST'VE EATEN WORMY!!!

Awwww! Their little feet are adorable!

Almost every summer I raise these little guys from egg to butterfly and then release them. It's amazing, and I think more people should give it a try.

Puberty hits them hard xD

Its weird how they already know what to do obce their born

It’s cool how you can see some of the patterns of the butterfly on the caterpillar before it transforms

This music brings back memories. I used this music at the end of a class project where I had to film a trip we took to Mount Rushmore for land surveying. I waited for years for that trip... Good memories man. I like the video too.

who hates caterpillars going through metamorphosis ? seriously, how does this piss you off??

What? Caterpie evolving. Caterpie evolved into a Metapod! What? Metapod evolving. Metapod evolved into butterfree!

That is actually beautiful.

Truly one of the most amazing creatures on earth

Wow that’s a pretty butterfly

Just beautiful, fascinating video. Thanks for sharing this

I used to like watching the life cycle of a butterfly as a kid

Thank you. I saw my first monarch caterpillar months ago, not knowing what it was! Now I know and wanted to see the full cycle.

0:45 My anxiety went: *UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP*

Me at 2 am : *binge watch metamorphosis*

This is just breathtaking.......

Watching this while I literally have a butterfly sitting on my computer. I'd post a photo but can't lol

1:13 the tip looks funnyXD

This is so amazing. A caterpillar can make grow thousands of times bigger than it's original size, try to evade bacteria or predators, and create a pupa just turn into a soup. Then, if it's lucky, it turns into a butterfly and only lives either one month or one year. And all I've accomplished in a year is eating, sleeping, and getting through school.

Butterflies are my favourite insect, they’re beautiful.

How beautiful. I came here after seeing for the first time one at my home. We bought the plants at home depot. She finally fly away today

This caterpillar.... CAN DO ANYTHING!! ...like if u get the reference

Woooooowwwww

It's just crazy how something that looks so different from a butterfly actually becomes a butterfly.

Wow. Amazing.🎁

Nature can be very beautiful.

Caterpie has left the chat Metapod has joined the chat

Peristalsis Movement during moulting is incredible

Praise God and all of his creations. To Him be the Glory.

Wow that's really cool! Thanks for showing me

I’m scared when it rapped in its cocoon then it was the awesomely beautiful video EVER nice job

Once it dances, takes off it’s skin and then shrinky dinks til it’s short my mind is blown ❤️🙏🏽

I was on an airplane waiting to get off, and I swear, the same music was playing.