What is "pupal"

Usage examples of "pupal".

Then I pried my fingers into the dirt around its pupal shape to see if it could be freed.

I climbed frantically toward his voice, knocking loose the pupal cases of several half-formed kobolds in my haste.

The wing of a moth develops from a lump of tissue, the wing imaginai disc, during the development of the adult inside the pupal case.

This is carried a step further in those insects whose adult form is developed inside a pupal case or cocoon.

And since fleas can spend anywhere from ten to over two hundred days in their larval stage, and from a week to a year in their pupal stage, one pair of adult fleas can produce offspring that could be in your house for as long as two years.

And not only that, but they pass on their chemical deterrent through the pupal stage into the adult moth itself.

This is especially so in groups that pass through pupal metamorphosis.

Seated near the hollow fire of this dry worry shrine was Alix in clowntorn rags faded to a pupal grey.

Then, as construction of the viewing stand went on around the sleeping offspring, the color of each pupal case began to change.

Those huge hexagonal blocks must contain some sort of living creatures-- something already huge, perhaps the pupal forms of unimaginable giants.

The pupal form of a rescue harness followed, and she secured it to one of the handrails.

There might still be a place for that pupal Bonaparte in the organization, but hardly as a Director.

From the larval stage, they then reach the pupal stage, the cocoon, which hatches the mature fly.

Before passing into the pupal stage, the larva partially closes the orifice of the tube with silk or pieces of stone loosely spun together and pervious to water.

Through this temporary protection the active pupa, which closely resembles the mature insect, subsequently bites a way by means of its strong mandibles, and rising to the surface of the water casts the pupal integument and becomes sexually adult.