The second stage is the caterpillar. A caterpillar is sometimes called larve. A caterpillar is a long creature. It looks like a worm. Most caterpillars have a cool pattern. This pattern has stripes or patches. The caterpillar is hungry once it has hatched. It starts to eat leaves and flowers. It eats these all the time. It first eats the leaf that it was born on. This is the eating and growing stage
2. The larvae or caterpillar (photo no.1)
After they were hatched, the larvae will be busy crawling and eating all the plant leaves for about two weeks or more and turn into beautiful caterpillars about 2 inches long. But sometimes, their sizes vary.