The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is one of the most exquisite ... beetles and flies all radically remodel their bodies within a pupa as they develop from larvae to adults.

The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly usually happens quietly, inside a firm opaque husk that protects the pupa as it slowly forms its showy wings. Back in 2015, at a summer course in ...

whereby the larva transforms into a pupa and then an adult. A classic example of this process is the caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly. During the pupal stage the insect's body is ...

Watching a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis is enough to evoke wonder even from the most world-weary of souls. But rarely do we get to see behind the scenes of the pupa’s transformation. Current ...

The pupae of the European butterfly Maculina rebeli exude a scent that mimics the ants and make themselves at home inside the ant nest. Once they become a caterpillar they even beg for food like ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday zookeepers received a new shipment of bright green butterfly pupae, which came from Costa Rica. The shipment included somewhere between 500 and 700 butterfly pupae. The pupa is the ...

Male zebra longwing butterflies sit on the pupae of females for up to 10 days before they hatch, ensuring they get first dibs at reproducing with them. But how do they know that they’re sitting ...