whereby the larva transforms into a pupa and then an adult. A classic example of this process is the caterpillar's ...

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

Dr Gavin Broad, Senior Curator of Hymenoptera, explains the gruesome phenomenon. A butterfly is just one of the creatures that might end up emerging from a chrysalis or a pupa. Butterflies and ...

Like all species in the giant order lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the monarch lifecycle is a perfect metamorphosis of four acts: egg, caterpillar, pupa, butterfly. The brightly colored ...