The oil and gas industry is an exception, with businesses predicting an average raise of 4% this year. At the bottom end of the spectrum are hospital workers, who typically were expected to bring home just 2% more in 2015 than they did in 2014.
While some insects, like moths, spin a cocoon, a butterfly uses a chrysalis, which is essentially hardened skin. Different species of butterflies stay in the chrysalis, or pupal stage, for different periods of time. This can range from about seven days to more than a year, but for a large number of species it is less than 30 days. The well-known monarch butterfly, for example, spends between nine and 14 days in a chrysalis, while the painted lady butterfly spends only seven to 10 days in the chrysalis.
First as an egg, then as a caterpillar, next as a pupa in its chrysalis, and finally, it emerges as a butterfly. This entire process takes about four weeks from start to finish; although the warmer it is, the shorter the cycle. Egg. A butterfly begins as an egg, laid on the underside of a milkweed leaf. Inside is a tiny caterpillar, but youâll have to look closely to see it since the eggs are very small â only about the size of a pinhead! A female Monarch will lay one egg at a time, up to 500! They lay so many because only about one in 20 make it to adulthood.