Pupating Pictures, Images and Stock Photos

A close up of a Black Swallowtail Chrysalis on a plant in the garden.

Monarch butterfly pupation, metamorphosis from caterpillar to chrysalis.

A Monarch caterpillar shedding its skin and pupating as it starts to form its chrysalis on a milkweed branch

This is a picture taken Kumamoto, Japan.

This is a picture taken Kumamoto, Japan.

A Monarch caterpillar shedding its skin and pupating as it starts to form its chrysalis on a milkweed branch

close up of a pupated green caterpillar of the Silver Y moth, Autographa gamma in the pupa, cocoon, stage of their metamorphosis life cycle isolated on black background.

This is a picture taken in Kumamoto, Japan

Monarch butterfly chrysalid hanging on a branch isolated on the white background. Educational picture of pupa of butterflies. Ready to be born. Wildlife

A close up of a Black Swallowtail Caterpillar pupating on a branch in the garden.

A Monarch Caterpillar in the Hanging J position on a stick in the garden.

Daphnis nerii, the oleander hawk-moth or army green moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae, side view. The caterpillar is green in the early stages, becomes brown just before pupating. This caterpillar was on an oleander plant and was photographed in Italy at the end of August. Selective focus on the head

This is a picture taken Kumamoto, Japan.

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Pawpaw Sphinx caterpillar (Dolba hyloeus) with pupating parasitic Tachinid wasp eggs on its back, feeding on a Yaupon Holly plant.

This is a picture taken Kumamoto, Japan.

Cinnabar caterpillars are larvea of the cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae). Here found pupating on the yellow flowered ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris).

Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus caterpillar hanging from a twig ready to pupate

Lateral view of pupae species Archips sp.

Black swallowtail larvae has spun thread sling on branch and curled in preparation of pupating.

This is a picture taken in Kumamoto, Japan

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula) attacks hanging caterpillar in the process of pupating - Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Black swallowtail butterfly pupae well camouflaged on a brown stick, with white background.

Two European Paper Wasps (Polistes dominula) attack hanging caterpillar during pupation - Baden-Württemberg, Germany

closeup, macro, background

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Giant Swallowtail caterpillar attached by silk threads to a Rue plant starts to pre-pupa before turning into a beautiful butterfly.

Ladybird larva turns into an adult, pupating on a peppermint leaf in a summer green garden. Transformation into another state, transition to a new level.

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A Monarch Caterpillar in the Hanging J position on a stick in the garden.

A Monarch caterpillar hanging in a J shape on a milkweed. Filaments have become slightly limp and twisted just before pupating.

A pupa forms after a fully fed caterpillar enters the pupal stage on dwarf willow at Ainsdale local nature reserve on the Sefton coast. These uncommon moths emerge here in good numbers each year and all life stages are often evident when visiting in their annual cycle of life rituals.