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 ...

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.

The USDA was able to confirm this was the first encounter of this species of moth since it was first described in 1912. This was also the first time that a larvae or pupae associated with this ...

The pupae have been destroyed, dunked first in scalding water, then in alcohol. The death’s head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos) has notoriety among bug fans because of the yellow, skull-like ...

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 ...

Five-spotted hawk moths overwinter in the soil in their pupa form, emerging in the summertime. "There is some controversy over whether I should have assisted the moth or not," OneHumanPeOple said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced last week that the pupae had hatched a species of moth whose last recorded sighting by scientists occurred in 1912 in Sri Lanka.

Butterfly pupa is simply the familiar chrysalis, signifying work-in-progress. Moths employ a more protective tactic, spinning a cocoon around its pupa, often with hairy surfaces.

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 ...

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.

The pupa certainly won't be needing it, considering what's about to happen next. The wasp is specifically looking to inject its young into moths in the process of pupating, or the cocoon phase.