Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars. Becoming a butterfly is a dangerous game, and it's easy for caterpillars to fall victim to some ...

In the case of a butterfly, the pupa is inside the chrysalis (other insects may spin cocoons or pupate in the soil) until the adult emerges. Adults mate and lay eggs. An insect with incomplete ...

The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage of the monarch ... The making of the chrysalis is complete. It takes 10 days to two weeks ...

After a few weeks, when the caterpillar has eaten enough and grown big enough, it begins to make itself into a pupa or chrysalis. It builds itself a cocoon to hide in,but inside all sorts of ...