Crossword clues for pupate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pupate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the year warms into summer, they pupate and turn into small greyish-black moths.
▪ Eventually, the larvae begin to pupate and no longer exude their chemical messages.
▪ Finally, in midsummer, the caterpillars pupate, creating a dark brown shell.
▪ In fact, eventually, it will crawl out of you and drop off, to pupate in the ground.
▪ It even sheds its coat periodically, and by the time it is born, it is able to pupate immediately.
▪ The females lay their eggs on milkweed and the caterpillars feed on these plants until they pupate, prior to emerging as butterflies.
▪ The last consideration that decides the form the lid should take is the needs of the caterpillars when they pupate.
▪ When the caterpillar is fully grown it usually hangs upside down from a leaf or plant stem, and begins to pupate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pupate
Pupate \Pu"pate\, v. i. (Zo["o]l.) To become a pupa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pupate
1864, from pupa + -ate (2). Related: Pupated; pupating.
Wiktionary
pupate
vb. To become a pup
WordNet
pupate
v. develop into a pupa; "the insect larva pupate"
Usage examples of "pupate".
When the larvae are ready to pupate, the platens are placed in lightweight plastic boxes, three platens, or six thousand bees, to a box, in a colour-coded storage area.
Wrapping cardboard or hessian around the trunk in December will attract pupating larvae.
When the grubs hatch, they bore nasty little holes in the tree, eventually pupating just under the bark.
The grubs pupated through several stages, feeding on the carion, until of a size to survive in the outside world as small gunnadu.