http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGZm0WRGzM
Metamorphasis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dx09DIRkIE
- Egg hatches into larva / Caterpillars
Female Male
- up to weeks or months
- Cells forming the body of the butterfly
Gynandromorphs
Butterfly Reproductive Aanatomy
- A mix between female and Male sex cells
- Sex chromosomes fail to seperate when the fertalized egg seperates
Lily Jacobs
Mating
- Claspers of the male attach on to the female abdominal
- The Aedeagus of the male goes into the vigina
- When the male ejaculates, the Spermatophone enters into the female to the Speratheca
Oviposition
- Egg moves down the Common Duct
- Egg is removed from the body through the Ovipositor
Fertilization
- Accessory Glands create sticky substance to help the eggs attach to the leaf
- ~ 100 eggs
- Eggs take 4 days to hatch
- Egg passes through oviduct, passes the Spermatheca where the sperm are being stored
- Sperm enters the egg though micropyle
- Oocyte goes through meiotic division
- Haploid Oocyte Nucleaus
- 3 polar Nuclei