Voracious Eating as a Caterpillar
When a monarch caterpillar eats milkweed, some food energy is stored as fat. A monarch caterpillar that finds plenty of milkweed becomes a big, healthy butterfly with a reserve of fat. This fat reserve will help a monarch survive the winter.
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