Sentence example with the word 'pupate'

pupate

Definition v. develop into a pupa

Last update: August 30, 2015


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The grubs, when hatched, start galleries nearly at right angles to this, and when fully grown form oval cells in which they pupate; from these the young beetles emerge by making circular holes directly outward through the bark.   [Please select]

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Several works I consulted united in the simple statement that certain caterpillars pupate in the ground.   [Please select]

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Those I kept in confinement pupated on a bed of baked gravel, in a tin bucket.   [Please select]

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In captivity the caterpillars seem to thrive best on a diet of purslane, and they pupate perfectly on dry sand in boxes.   [Please select]

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My only consolation was that it was feeding, and would not pupate until I could make a picture.   [Please select]

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Those that pupated on the ground had left their skins at the thorax, and lay two inches from them.   [Please select]

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When ready to pupate, they encase themselves in earthen cells (10 mm.)   [Please select]

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