De nombreux butterfly crysalis suspendue à un zoo papillon dans l'attente de l'émergence des papillons adultes. La métamorphose de Caterpillar

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• ID de l’image: DMCF4M
• Taille du fichier: 72 MB (2 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 6144 x 4096 px | 52 x 34,7 cm | 20,5 x 13,7 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 21 février 2013

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The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is one of the most exquisite in the natural world. Within the chrysalis, an inching, cylindrical eating machine remakes itself into a beautiful flying creature that drinks through a straw. This strategy—known as holometaboly, or complete metamorphosis—partitions youngsters and adults into completely different worlds, so that neither competes with the other. It’s such a successful way of life that it’s used by the majority of insects (and therefore, the majority of all animals). Butterflies, ants, beetles and flies all radically remodel their bodies within a pupa as they develop from larvae to adults.

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