2007-11-20 14:49:51 · 6 answers · asked by alecxandria f 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The other answers are correct. The caterpillar produces its own "silk" and builds the cocoon around itself. The fabric silk is made by carefully unwrapping the cocoons from a particular kind of butterfly caterpillar.
2007-11-20 15:20:59 · answer #1 · answered by Gary H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The butterfly is the adult and final life stage. It is the caterpillar that must construct a cocoon. Not all cocoons are made from the caterpillars silk. Some use leafs or other plant parts. Sometimes the caterpillar makes a cocoon of its own body.
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2007-11-20 16:01:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a butterfly doesn't build a cocoon, a caterpillar does...
2007-11-20 14:52:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its the caterpiller which spuns the cocoon around itself with its secretion.
2007-11-20 15:11:52 · answer #4 · answered by shruthi jain 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a butterfly does not build the cacoon the catepllar does and its made with thick glue like silk spuns the catepillar makes
2007-11-20 14:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no but a Caterpillar does
2007-11-20 14:53:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋