These butterflies lay their eggs in a colony of wooly aphids, and sometimes near scale insects or treehoppers.  These eggs have a spherical shape with a bit of sculpting , and they are greenish white in color.

These butterfly caterpillars are the only strictly carnivorous larvae existing in the United States.  They appear to be slug-like and are about 1.9 cm in length.  When they become full grown caterpillars, they are white, gray, and yellow in color, and bristly hairs cover their whole body.  However, they produce a white wax that often covers their pattern of colors.  These caterpillars need as few as eight days as a caterpillar before they go into their J-Shape.  

Their chrysalis is an off-white color, and there is a pattern that is similar to the face of a monkey or lizard upon it.

The wings of these butterflies have an orange interior, and a black border upon the dorsal surface.  The ventral surface is a burnt orange with some darker spots, and a white edge.  This types of butterfly take about three weeks to become one.