The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage of the monarch butterfly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...