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During pupation, a baby insect wraps itself in a protective cocoon or shell while its soft, immature body becomes a more structurally complex adult one.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2013

Born on the Bexley butterfly farm, the boy grew up in a fluttering world that was timed to the persistent rhythm of mating, egg laying, caterpillar collecting, pupation and maturing butterflies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few hours before pupation they become very restless and migrate from their feeding ground in search of a favorable place in which to pass the pupa stage.

From The House Fly and How to Suppress It U. S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1408 by Bishopp, F. C.

In about two weeks from the time of pupation, the moths appear.

From The Pecan and its Culture by Hume, H. Harold (Hardrada Harold)

I learned by investigation that pupation takes place in a hole worked out by the caterpillar, so earth must touch these cases only as they lie upon it.

From Moths of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene