We often come across small caterpillars in spring, nibbling on leaves all day long. A few weeks later, they disappear and ...

Butterflies are colorful, delicate, and graceful creatures that bring beauty to the world. They are also exciting to watch as ...

A classic example of this process is the caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly. During the pupal stage the insect's body is totally reconstructed, a process that even affects its internal ...

Because, see, the butterfly gave as good as it got. One of the most enchanting things about butterflies is their metamorphosis from egg to larva (caterpillar) to pupa (chrysallis) to butterfly ...

That’s like their teenager stage. A moth pupa usually changes inside a silk cocoon. Sometimes people harvest that silk to make fabric. A butterfly pupa might look like a cocoon, but it’s ...

“We discovered that butterfly pupae develop unique body features to establish secure bonds with silk,” the team wrote in the study’s abstract. “This enables them to effectively undergo ...

Though wonderful to watch, transformation from larva to pupa or from pupa to butterfly is not a particularly pleasant process for the subject involved. There comes for every caterpillar a ...

Peachey said the zoo acquires butterfly pupa from a butterfly farm in Costa Rica and that farm actually uses all of that revenue to support butterfly conservation projects in Costa Rica.

In a lush greenhouse high in the Alps, butterflies of various species and colors flutter freely while butterfly pupae are suspended in a structure as they grow into adult insects. This is the ...