Butterfly, Butterfly
By Jan Warren

Butterfly, butterfly, laying lots of eggs.
The eggs hatch caterpillars with short stubby legs.
Caterpillar, caterpillar, eating ‘til you’re big.
Then walking very slowly you hang from a twig. 
Sleep now, and change, but very, very soon…
Caterpillar, caterpillar, you changed, you didn’t die.
You grew wings, and long legs to become a beautiful butterfly!

-Butterflies are flying insects with long, scaly wings.

-A butterfly has four wings, six legs, a head, a thorax (body or chest), and an abdomen (the tail end).

-Butterflies start as caterpillars, shed their skin, transform into a chrysalis, and emerge as a butterfly.  Metamorphosis is the change of the form or structure of an animal as it grows and matures.