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Elongated, dome-shaped, black and orange shed pupal
larval skin clearly seen clinging to one ...
Pic 1 - Common Grass Yellow Butterfly
Pic 2 - Caterpillar and
The pupa is an elongated dome shape, ...
pupa, on top of a brown towel, so I could ...
Broken chrysalis of a larvae that has passed the stage of a
When pupating, the larval skin appears to ...
day 12. At day 12, wing pattern was already visible under the pupal
A strangely shaped pupa? was stuck to a ...
skin that the
silk around their mid-section. After forming the chrysalis they shed the outer ...
eventual adult size. The pupa is an ...
as a pupa. Contrary to its bright colours, ...
Alongside the wasp cocoon is the skin of a ...
The Malachite Butterfly, is a neotropical brush-footed butterfly, ( family ...
small area of hair loss to nearly complete hair loss on the body with ...
The pupal skin becomes transparent during ...
Fluffy, mottled grey brown moth with bronze, gold and chestnut wing ...
caterpillar even manages to push its final larval
caterpillars that live on lichen. This moth appears to have emerged from the ...
sheds its larva skin. The first instar of ...
red, yellow, and black markings. Their bodies are oval-shaped. These insects ...
eventual adult size. The pupa is an ...
observer. Mosquitoes go through four stages in their life-cycle: egg, larva, ...
Large cerambycid, at about 6cm from head to the tip of the abdomen. Elytra are ...
through four stages, or instars, after which they metamorphose into
These fruit flies spend the winter 5-10 cm below the soil surface as
until it is about 2 1/4" long. At this point it sheds its
and Pedunculate Oak. The species overwinters as a
splits open (from side to side) and the
enough to begin to molt (shed their skin), ...
October (picture 5). The pupa was bright ...
The two-spotted ladybird was one of the many species originally described by ...
A carnivorous beetle used as a localised biological control agent against ...
The Pupa stage is nearing it's end and the ...
These ladybirds are bright orange-yellow with four variable black dots on each ...