pupate. To molt from the larval stage to the pupa.
pustule. Small blisterlike elevation of epidermis from which spores emerge.
The larva pupates within the gall (Fig. 6). The pupa, which resembles the adult beetle with legs and snout clearly discernible, is light-colored but becomes dark just before it changes to an adult. The pupal stage lasts about 2 weeks.
INJURY ...
If you're hand picking, check to see whether horn-worms have been attacked by parasitic wasps first—if they have, the wasp larvae will have pupated, forming structures that look like small white grains of rice on the back of the hornworm.
Larvae gnaw the bloom as they develop, then drop to the ground to pupate. When disturbed, the curculio plays dead, dropping off the plant to avoid capture. Use this against them by knocking the bugs into a bowl of soapy water.
Sometime in June, the larvae will make their way to the ground, where they will pupate in the soil. The adult VLB emerges in the latter part of July and continue feeding on viburnums.
Provide a stout branch on which the larva can attach itself when ready to pupate. In order to emerge properly, the adult butterfly needs to push against something.
When it's fully grown, it curls the edges of the leaf together and pupates to emerge as a small moth about five millimetres in length. The moth is only active at night, so it's rarely seen and its lifecycle may take as little as three weeks.
They pupate in the spring and adults emerge in April or May. After mating, the female beetle bores through the bark and constructs an egg gallery parallel with the grain of the wood between the bark and cambium layer.
They pupate in late spring and emerge in early summer. Upon emergence, the females begin construction of the nest, which usually consists of a central chamber extending a few inches below ground and terminating in a series of cells.
The larvae of several species of moths that pupate just beneath the surface of the soil. While in the larval stage they emerge at night and "cut down" seedlings, then devour them, leaving no evidence beyond the severed stem.
The caterpillar then begins to pupate, wrapping itself in a unique case called a chrysalis, which is well-camouflaged. Some pupae hang from stems, some roll into leaves and some - cocoon-like - are found on the ground amid fallen leaves.
After larvae have finished feeding on the fruit, they wander to flaps of bark or other protected sites to pupate. Assist them in this by providing an "artificial bark flap", such as a band of corrugated cardboard or burlap, on the trunk.
They form cocoons and pupate, usually in the bark, of a tree or underneath leaves or other debris on the ground. By midsummer they re-emerge as moths. A second generation follows -- this time larger and more destructive.
The ladybugs emerge as larvae, feed for two or three weeks, then, attaching themselves to a leaf or stem, pupate (the structure of the larval body rearranging itself completely).
"Some butterfly caterpillars overwinter in a partially grown state and then pupate in the spring. This may have been the case with this one," says Larry Campbell, extension agent for Harrison County in West Virginia.
It is the iris borer larvae which cause damage; they attack the central leaf stalk and tunnel downward into the rhizome, where they pupate and emerge as an adult moth.
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beginning to pupate
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This breaks the beetle breeding cycle where the young feed in the mushy old flower, then bore into the ground to pupate and later emerge as beetles to repeat the process.
The adults lay eggs in soft organic matter on the ground under the host plant where the larvae burrow through the soil feeding on the roots of the host plant and pupate in the soil.
When mature the larva moves to a new leaf, rolls it into a case and pupates. This insect probably over-winters as a pupae or partially grown larvae. The golden adult moth is about 1/2" long and very secretive.
By midsummer they eat their way through the rhizome leaving only the outside shell and then return to the soil to pupate.
The mature larva chews its way out of the leaf and drops to the ground to pupate. The adult fly emerges and the cycle repeats itself 3-4 more times in the growing season attacking the newly developing leaves.
They are able to "skeletonize" viburnum leaves in a matter of days. In early June, the larvae fall to the ground and pupate. Adult beetles emerge by early July. They are roughly 1/4-inch long and brown in color.
The larvae are eating machines, actually outgrowing their bodies five times. Then the caterpillar pupates, covering itself with a protective shell, and metamorphosing into an adult butterfly or moth.
If you discover an infestation, remove infested bulbs promptly before the larvae move into the soil to pupate.
Onion thrips - a fine white mottling on the foliage indicates an attack on onions or leeks.
 See also: Larva, Insect, Larvae, Plant, Spring
  
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