Monarch Butterfly

The Monarch only lives about 2-6 weeks as an adult, but the time frame for a butterfly’s life cycle is about 6-8 weeks. It will start as an egg, then caterpillar, chrysalis, and at last a butterfly.  It is a common poisonous butterfly. The eggs are hatched on a milkweed plant and in its larval stage it eats the plant which is poisonous.