As our scientific understanding of. these relationships deepen, our understanding of what consciousness is will also deepen. A. similar transmutation of meaning (with growth of knowledge) occurs with basic terms in. physics such as energy, and time..
The scales give the butterfly wings their color and beauty. Stage (noun) - one of the distinct periods in an insect's life. Butterflies have four stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Thorax (noun) - the second segment in an insect's body, located in the mid-section. Butterfly wings and legs are attached to the thorax.
Some butterflies spend only a little more than a week in the pupal stage. Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images. Butterflies have four distinct stages in their life cycle. They start as an egg, hatch into a caterpillar, turn into pupae during metamorphosis, and finally emerge as a butterfly.