pupate

They each make a tent of leaves, bound together with silk, in which they pupate until they emerge in late summer and autumn ready for their journey south.

After plenty of eating and growth, the tiny youngsters will hibernate over the winter and pupate next year, emerging in the summer as butterflies.

The larvae feed for a month then pupate, emerging as flies three weeks later.

Here the mums will lay eggs, which will pupate and, in the summer of 2020, the large heath butterflies will be released on Astley Moss and Risley Moss.

Caterpillars about to pupate varied in colour (Figs 4, 5 and 6).

Once hatched, the grubs will eat their store of pollen and nectar, pupate into an adult bee and then overwinter, ready to hatch out in spring."

Caterpillars are gregarious feeders but leave food plants to pupate singularly on surrounding vegetation in late spring (Grof-Tisza et al., 2015).

They eventually bury themselves into the ground and pupate during the winter, emerging as adults the following May.

By the time you notice a hornworm, it is probably about finished eating anyway and will soon drop to the ground, dig down a few inches, and pupate. If you let it complete its life cycle, there's a reward: from the pupa will emerge a large sphinx or hawk moth.

Carpet moth larvae can stay at this stage for up to three months, waiting for favourable conditions so they can pupate and turn into adult moths.

"When they have finished feeding the caterpillars crawl down to the ground and pupate over winter.