Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Gaumont-British Instructional
Butterflies and Nettles on the Web:Official Website
Secrets of Life
The sequel series of shorts to Secrets of Nature (1922-1934).
Butterflies and Nettles
Documentary on the life cycle of the tortoiseshell butterfly: first laying their eggs under the leaves of sting nettles and in2-3 weeks the caterpillars emerge and live off the nettle leaves. Then fully grown caterpillars spin a chrysalis. After 3 weeks the new butterfly emerges, and so the cycle continues.
