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in Class 12 by kratos

Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Butter flies are some of the most interesting insects on the Planet Earth. There are more than seventeen thousand different kinds of butter flies. Butter flies come in all shapes and sizes. Butter flies go through four main stages of life. The first stage is the egg stage followed by the larva stage. As a larva, or caterpillar, the future butter fly eats as much as possible. As it grows it sheds it outer skin, or exoskeleton. This may happen four or five times. After a few weeks, the caterpillar enters the next stage of its life, the chrysalis stage. In the chrysalis, the caterpillar will liquefy into a soup of living cells. Then it will reorganize into a butterfly and the metamorphosis is complete. Parts of the chrysalis stage, you can see the forming butterfly through the chrysalis. When the butterfly emerges from the chrysalis, it pumps its wings to send blood through them so that it can fly. Most butterflies only live a couple of weeks, first enough time to drink flower nectar and to mate, some, like the monarch butterfly, however, may live many months.

Questions :

(i) How many kinds of Butterflies are there on the planet Earth?

(ii) How many stages of life does a Butterfly go through?

(iii) What is the second stage of life for a Butterfly?

(iv) How long do most Butterflies live?

1 Answer

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by kratos
 
Best answer

(i) There are more than seventeen thousand different kinds of butterflies on the planet earth.

(ii) A Butterfly goes through four stages of life.

(iii) Larva is the second stage of life for a butterfly.

(iv) Most Butterflies live a couple of weeks.

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