The life cycle includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
The life cycle of a fly consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Metamorphosis is complete; i.e., the insect develops through four distinct stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
The grub becomes a pupa and then a fly to deposit more larvae.
Their life cycle includes four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
That vocabulary in "Ferdydurke" is dominated by two basic terms, rendered, in Borchardt's translation, as "the pupa" and "the mug".
"This is my circle of life," says Beatrice, six, showing me her sketch of an egg, caterpillar, pupa and butterfly.
The prothoracic gland hormone is necessary for larval molting (ecdysis), metamorphosis to the pupa, and formation of adult characteristics.
Butterflies, for instance, have a caterpillar stage (larva), a dormant chrysalis stage (pupa), and an adult stage (imago).
The ultra-Orthodox who began going to the synagogue are described by people here as members of the Pupa and Satmar sects, among the more insular Hasidic groups.
Some species of heliconians have taken this aggressive suitorship to a further extreme: they probe into the pupa and fertilize the female before she has even emerged.
