Pupate

Word PUPATE
Character 6
Hyphenation pu pate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Pupate"

What do we mean by pupate?

To become a pupa. intransitive verb

To go through a pupal stage. intransitive verb

To become a pupa; enter upon the pupal state; undergo transformation from the state of the grub or larva to that of the perfect insect or imago: as, to pupate under ground; to pupate in winter.

To become a pupa. intransitive verb

To become a pupa. verb

Develop into a pupa verb

To become a pupa.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pupate

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The word "pupate" in example sentences

Underlying the science is the helpful fact that flies go through four main and identifiable developmental stages, from egg (which will generally hatch within 24 hours) to larva (which will feed on the corpse for about five days, then spend another couple preparing to pupate) to pupa (equivalent to a butterfly's chrysalis; another seven days) and onwards to adult fly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The caterpillar must've been sheltering under one of the leaves, and the warmth of the house revived him enough to start looking for a nice place to pupate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The maggots eventually pupate into flies and the cycle continues. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This spinneret creates the silk that is needed for the caterpillar to spin a cocoon in which it will pupate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was as if I had warned them that I was about to pupate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They live and feed in these cases, emerging only to pupate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The caterpillars pupate into these beautiful little cocoon things that hang from the sides of the tent. ❋ E (2008)

You send away, get a half dozen caterpillars, watch them pupate, and, hopefully, hatch into butterflies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Free-living forms - these larvae do not make a case until they pupate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The ants are thus tricked into thinking the caterpillars are their own offspring and feed and care for them until they pupate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Leave them in the wilderness to pupate into something different or die. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Once mature, the larvae crawl out of the water and pupate in the soil. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My neighbor girls found this exact pupate in the deep woods on a rock behind our home. ❋ AYDIN (2007)

According to Wagner Caterpillars of Eastern North America, Princeton Field Guides, 2005, the caterpillars, normally green, turn yellow or orange when they are ready to pupate. ❋ AYDIN (2007)

And a couple of years back the catapillers moved around my room looking for places to pupate, I picked about a hundred off my curtains, and later found my DVD boxes were infested. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Someday, I dream that they will germinate, or pupate, or whatever, and a tiny troll will emerge, and spread fragile little wings, gossamer and glistening in the pale morning air, and climb with teeny hooves up to the top of its little stalk of grass. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Because he was fully mature and crawling around on the ground, I expected him to pupate. ❋ Angry Professor (2006)

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