Bifurcation diagram showing attractors of the morphic field as a function of time. The hanging loop denotes life cycles of an individual butterfly of the colony.
Biography of a monarch:
1. Egg: five days
2. Birth
3. Larva (caterpillar), 5 instars of 2-7 days: ca 3 weeks.
4. Making the pupa (chrysalis): 1 day
5. Metamorphosis: ca 1 week
6. Butterfly: 2-6 weeks in summer
7. Reproduction: anytime after the first few days
8. Death: shortly after mating
Note the overlap of a few days while the parent fails, and the egg grows.