pupating

The moths seem to have been pupating under the webs, because she saw adults hiding under branches waiting to fly away when night fell.

Specieswatch: Bird-cherry ermine moth 2011

Awake after its winter sleep, it will feed up for some weeks before pupating to emerge in June with the brilliant colours that inspired its name.

Country diary: Fordingbridge 2011

Soon they will disappear to hibernate, emerging again in early spring to briefly enjoy the sunshine before pupating.

Country diary: South Uist Christine Smith 2010

The first queen bee who hatches usually wins, by dispatching of her still-pupating rivals; in fact, a queen's stinger is used only for that purpose.

Behind the (Beekeeper's) Veil 2010

Here, the caterpillar sings to the deluded ants and feeds voraciously on ant grubs for 10 months of the year, gaining 98% of its body weight this way before pupating.

Butterflies: out of the blue 2010

The large blue caterpillar survives by performing an elaborate con-trick, encouraging ants to take it into their underground colonies, where it turns parasite and feeds on ant grubs all winter before pupating and crawling out of the ants 'nest as a butterfly in June.

Large blue butterfly flying high again 2010

The multiplex, meanwhile, is currently pupating, waiting for its next phase of evolution, as digital projection and 3D arrive.

How multiplex cinemas saved the British film industry 25 years ago Phil Hoad 2010

This, explained Barry, was a goat moth tree, host to the big wood-boring larvae; these live in galleries inside the sapwood for four years before pupating and emerging as adult moths.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

This, explained Barry, was a goat moth tree, host to the big wood-boring larvae; these live in galleries inside the sapwood for four years before pupating and emerging as adult moths.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

As for pooping, the larva only poops once in its childhood, in that, the feces is stored at the end of the digestive tract as a superconcentrated pellet, and is only released after the molt of the second to final instar before pupating.

Brachynemurus abdominalis - The Panda's Thumb 2009