The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage of the monarch butterfly life cycle. It uses spinnerets near its mouth to create a tiny silken pad.

These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, caterpillar or pupa. Parasitoids start their lives as parasites, in or on the body of a host, but they end up as predators, eating the ...

a sexually mature female butterfly lays her eggs on the leaves of plants The eggs enter a growth phase until they are ready to hatch as caterpillars Each caterpillar forms a chrysalis (pupa ...

The fourth instar is characterized by a new banding pattern on the thorax, and white spots on the prolegs near the back of the caterpillar ... to form a pupa, or chrysalis — the last stage of ...

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The female butterfly lays her eggs ... After a few weeks, when the caterpillar has eaten enough and grown big enough, it begins to make itself into a pupa or chrysalis. It builds itself a cocoon ...