Jul. 4—ORONO — Wearing white protective suits designed for handling hazardous materials, students at the University of Maine gather nests filled with the pupae of browntail moths from an oak ...

For many moth species, the pupa uses silk to spin a protective cocoon, and inside that cocoon the pupa transforms into an adult moth.

It’s called a chrysalis. Both butterflies and moths belong to a big group of insects that go through complete metamorphosis. They have four life stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult.

Moth pupa also has a tubular body, but is normally darker and has a little spike at the end. One person explained: "Looks like an elephant hawk moth pupa - they have that little spike on the end ...

Larvae and pupae found in seed pods at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport last fall hatched into Salma brachyscopalis Hampson moths ...

The invasive winter moth could be resurging in some parts of Rhode Island after years of decline.

The invasive winter moth could be resurging in some parts of Rhode Island after years of decline.

However, the sphinx moths do not either transport or sequester plant molecular defenses. They utilize plant molecular defenses but with another technique. Endoparasite pupae spill from a sphinx moth ...

I cracked open the puparium and endosymbiont pupae spilled out. They had completely consumed all of the moth, leaving the sphinx puparium fully packed with endosymbiont pupae.

A Gypsy Moth pupa and a Gypsy Moths caterpillar gather in the shade of a maple tree where they have been feeding on its leaves.

A further unknown number was taken by elaterid larvae. The shrew Sorex araneus probably accounted for about twentyfive pupae, and other small mammals may have taken an equal number. On emergence, the ...

James Stewart, a lab manager at the University of Maine, and graduate student Emma Irvine collect nests of browntail moth caterpillar pupae from an oak tree on the UMaine campus in Orono on June ...