How about shedding your skin and dissolving your own muscles? Now, believe it or not, that gruesome process is how caterpillars earn their wings. Here's what you might not know about what's inside ...

Once the caterpillar reaches a critical size, a hormone called ecdysone triggers the shedding of its skin, a process that happens several times during its growth stages. The juvenile hormone keeps ...

6 Their caterpillars should get bigger, and might even shed their skin. 7 After a while, they will turn into a chrysalis. They will look as if they are dead, but wait patiently. 8 One day each ...