Question: what is the difference between the life cycle of a grasshopper and a butterfly?
Answer: When it reaches full adult size, the grasshopper stops molting. Unlike a grasshopper, a butterfly looks nothing at all like its parents when it hatches. A butterfly starts life as a multi-legged caterpillar (also known as a larva) and feeds on leaves. Like a grasshopper, a caterpillar molts as it grows.