It depends on what type of caterpillar you are talking about. For instance, the woolly bear (or worm) stays in its cocoon from an average of ten to fifteen days. There are oth â¦ er ranges, of course, but that is because woolly bear caterpillars are so common throughout the world.
Temperature is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance.
When you measure the temperature of something, youâre measuring the average kinetic energy of the individual particles. Heat, on the other hand, is a measure of the total amount of energy a substance possesses.