The four stages of life are egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa and adult ... lay many eggs on a single large leaf. If I look at the bottom of sunflower leaves at my house, I am very likely to ...

These pictures show how a Bagworm caterpillar builds tiny ... can sleep in comfort during their pupa stage. The 'log cabins' are perched on branches or leaves until their owners emerge and ...

At first sight, the image below may just seem like a green leaf. But look closer, and you'll notice that an incredibly well camouflaged caterpillar is resting on it. The species, called the ...

I was beneath an ash tree at the University of Colorado, examining leaves for emerald ash ... they could see that these were pupae, not caterpillars, and the tiny yellow structures were fecal ...

Click the right arrow to see more images of this caterpillar and the full ... gorge themselves on leaves until winter arrives, and then form a tough cocoon, in which they will stay as a pupa all ...

The transformation from caterpillar ... the pupae are covered by a thin cuticle…we are just removing a few cells to create this window,” he says. Taking one image every 20 minutes, Pomerantz ...

Looper caterpillars get their name from their ... domed-shaped eggs singly on the undersides of mature leaves. The pupa is enclosed in a thin cocoon attached to leaves in the plant’s crown ...

But now, two teams of scientists have started to captured intimate series of images showing the same caterpillars metamorphosing inside their pupae. Both teams used a technique called micro-CT ...