Pupa
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A pupa is the life stage of insects from the Holometabola clade undergoing metamorphosis between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through f
Pupa of the rose chafer beetle, Cetonia aurata
Tumbler (pupa) of a mosquito. Unlike most pupae, tumblers can swim around actively.
Adult Hercus fontinalis, a species of parasitoid wasp, emerging from cocoon
Male mottled emigrant butterfly (Catopsilia pyranthe) mating with newly emerged female
Caddisfly
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The caddisflies are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults. There are approximately 14,500 described species, most of which can be divided into the suborders Integripalpia and A
Eocene fossil in Baltic amber, Lithuania (44mya)
Larva with portable case of rock fragments
Larva emerging from case made of plant material