Caterpillars Hazel

A caterpillar walks on 16 little legs. Caterpillars can be any colour even black or brown. Caterpillars are up to 17 cm long. Caterpillars have three body parts the head, the abdomen and the thorax. A caterpillar has 4 legs on the front left and 4 legs on the right and that is repeated on the back.

Caterpillars live in hedges and bushes. Caterpillars also can live in trees. They can also be found in your gardens or back yards they live on the under side of plants to hide from predators. Caterpillars can also be found in dark places like long grass.

A caterpillar starts its life as a small round egg. A caterpillar is usually lays the eggs on the leaf of a plant. When the egg hatches a little caterpillar comes out. The caterpillar likes to eat the same type of leaf it was laid on. The third stage of the caterpillars life is the cocoon. A caterpillar eats until it is big enough to make a cocoon. The forth stage of a caterpillars life is when the caterpillar emerges out of its cocoon. When it emerges it has turned into a butterfly. This is called a metamorphosis.

A caterpillars predators are humans, birds, cats and dogs. Most caterpillars eat leaves and plants. Caterpillars have strong jaws so they can chew on plants and leaves. Caterpillars eat so much because they need to make a cocoon.

Some caterpillars can change colours to hide from their predators. A caterpillar has 12 eyes 6 on each side of their body. A caterpillar has 4,000 muscles in it's body which allows it to move around quickly when required.

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