Online sales of caterpillar kits are booming, and the chance to watch an insect turn into a butterfly has caught the imaginations of every age group in the age of social distancing.

We begin, however, as caterpillars, and must somehow puzzle out how to get from caterpillar to butterfly. That path is abjectly clear, but none of us is immediately willing to go into the cocoon.

Paige Firkins gloated online that she 'kinda took the biggest cocoon' (Kennedy News and Media) By Jessica Cripps 11:14, 17 Oct 2018 ...

A butterfly “cocoon” isn’t really a cocoon at all. It’s called a chrysalis. Both butterflies and moths belong to a big group of insects that go through complete metamorphosis.