Pupating

Soon they will disappear to hibernate, emerging again in early spring to briefly enjoy the sunshine before pupating. ❋ Christine Smith (2010)

Awake after its winter sleep, it will feed up for some weeks before pupating to emerge in June with the brilliant colours that inspired its name. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The moths seem to have been pupating under the webs, because she saw adults hiding under branches waiting to fly away when night fell. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The first queen bee who hatches usually wins, by dispatching of her still-pupating rivals; in fact, a queen's stinger is used only for that purpose. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here, the caterpillar sings to the deluded ants and feeds voraciously on ant grubs for 10 months of the year, gaining 98% of its body weight this way before pupating. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The large blue caterpillar survives by performing an elaborate con-trick, encouraging ants to take it into their underground colonies, where it turns parasite and feeds on ant grubs all winter before pupating and crawling out of the ants 'nest as a butterfly in June. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The multiplex, meanwhile, is currently pupating, waiting for its next phase of evolution, as digital projection and 3D arrive. ❋ Phil Hoad (2010)

This, explained Barry, was a goat moth tree, host to the big wood-boring larvae; these live in galleries inside the sapwood for four years before pupating and emerging as adult moths. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

As for pooping, the larva only poops once in its childhood, in that, the feces is stored at the end of the digestive tract as a superconcentrated pellet, and is only released after the molt of the second to final instar before pupating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The braconid wasp that had stung it a few weeks earlier had no such qualms--each white puff on the caterpillar's back was a wasp pupating, slowly using up the energy of my tomato plants chewed up by the hornworm. ❋ Doyle (2008)

But, just as Humbert's mind is on a permanent knife-edge of sexual mania, so his creator manages to tread the vertiginous path between incest, by which few are tempted, and engagement with pupating or nymphlike girls, which will not lose its frisson. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The four reasons I will share publicly are: 1. As a pupating author, being able to see the whole gory process of novel writing and making, including the version of TAD with all the typos, can only help propel my mediocre career to somewhere below the smog layer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Assuming they're pretty efficient consumers, since there's not much left of a carcass after the maggots have left to bury themselves, pupating into flies so they can buzz away and pester humans and other critters, how many maggots do you get out of a pound of elk? ❋ Grouse (2004)

It either shortcuts you to your very self; or it triggers such variations that you might as well have been a larva, pupating in dampness, darkness and tightly wrapped puttees. ❋ Macdonald Ann-Marie (1996)