A caterpillar does this through a process that requires it to stop eating, hang itself upside down from a twig, wiggle from its skin underneath, and split itself open, shedding its former self.

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 ...