The dance of the unruly pupa. A pupa is the living, breathing, and often... wiggling... middle stage of complete metamorphosis. Pupae are usually calm and relatively stationary, making them easy to photograph in my mini white box studio. However, the pupae of some geometrids, like this Euchlaena species, have proven to be remarkably (and even annoyingly) hyperactive once they are disturbed and start to wiggle. After about ten minutes of watching this pupa spin on stage, I plopped it back in its

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To continue PUPA week, here is our very first video post on the subject from a few years back. Enjoy :) Want to learn even more about Pupa? Visit our pupation resources page here: http://www.thecaterpillarlab.org/pupation-video-resources WHAT IS A PUPA? A CHRYSALIS? A COCOON? video: Hickory Horned Devil shedding into pupal form The "middle" stage of metamorphosis, the stage that is most overwhelmingly transformative, is continually being misunderstood and misrepresented by the media and even in

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