These Epic Natural Transformations Will Leave You in Awe of Nature. How is It Possible?
Everyone loves butterflies. They’re beautiful, enchanting, and remind us of spring and summer blooms and sunny days. And a butterfly is especially captivating once you learn that they once looked exactly nothing like the way they do as an adulthood: the transformation from caterpillar to majestic butterfly has captured the imaginations of artists, writers, musicians, and others for ages.
The caterpillars themselves can be as amazing as their final form, too. These photos show the astounding transformation that butterflies and moths undergo in order to stretch their wings, soar into the sky, and take our breath away.
1.) Hubbard’s Small Silkmoth
2.) Io Moth
3.) Cecropia
4.) Pipevine Swallowtail
5.) Spicebush Swallowtail
6.) Attacus Atlas
7.) Black Swallowtail
8.) Acraga Coa
9.) Glass Winged Butterfly
10.) Polyura Sempronius
11.) Phobetron Pithecium
12.) Cerura Vinula
13.) Blue Morpho
14.) Isochaetes Beutenmuelleri
15.) Brahmin Moth
16.) Flannel Moth
17.) Isa Textula
18.) Spotted Apatelodes