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Definition of Pupates
1. pupate [v] - See also: pupate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pupates
Literary usage of Pupates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1916)
"pupates in ground about July 25th. Evidence, hole in stem and frass. humuli ...
pupates in stem about August 20th and is usually tightly wedged in burrow. ..."
2. A Manual of Dangerous Insects Likely to be Introduced in the United States by United States Bureau of Entomology (1918)
"pupates in July in earth. Larva 33 mm. long; blue-green in color, marked with white
... Pupa chestnut brown, pupates in larval gallery. Larva length g mm.; ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1900)
"... and grains of the food-plant, within the larger of which it pupates. ...
but this species leaves its case and pupates in the earth. ..."
4. Transactions of the City of London Entomological and Natural History Society (1907)
"In its last stages it is purely an external feeder, and it pupates on the surface
of the fen. Cannae, again, is another curious example ; it starts feeding ..."
5. Elementary Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1901)
"pupates either inside the host, or crawls out and, spinning a little silken
cocoon (fig. 160), pupates on the surface of the body or elsewhere. ..."
6. The Indian Forester (1901)
"When full fed, it lets itself down from the leaves of the teak by silken threads
and pupates on the ground. The pupa is formed in a flimsy cocoon which is ..."
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