Example Sentences

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This has consequences for birds that cannot eat caterpillars that have entered the pupal stage.

From Science Daily • Sep. 22, 2023

The researchers also detected pupal ‘milk’ in species from each of the five biggest ant subfamilies, suggesting that it could play a part in the evolution of ant social structures.

From Scientific American • Dec. 2, 2022

Sitting on a leaf were two tiny moths, with the pupal skins they had just emerged from still poking out of the leaf mines.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2022

For some, it was the pupal stage before they became punks.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019

Each may consume several hundred aphids before the ceaseless turning of the cycle of its life brings the time when it will spin a white silken cocoon in which to pass the pupal stage.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson