Crossword-Solution: PUPATED 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Having occasion to move it on the twentyfourth, I peeped in and found half my caterpillars out and starved, proving that they had been hatched at least thirty-six hours or longer; half the others so feeble they soon became inactive, and the remainder survived and pupated.

Two days later it stopped travelling, and pupated on the top of the now hardened earth in the bucket that contained the other two.

These enable the caddis pupa to bite its way out of the shortened larval case in which it has pupated, and then to swim upwards through the water ready for the caddis-fly's emergence into the air.

This is best done by leaving a low ridge of earth under the vines at the last seasonal cultivation to remain until most of the larvæ have pupated, and then be leveled with a horse-hoe and later with a harrow.

The dipteron (the parasite, as I have said, is a fly) had pupated after the manner of its kind, forming a puparium, that is, instead of spinning a cocoon like the ant larva: the dead larval skin, somewhat shrivelled and contracted, was used as an envelope, and within this the pupa proper was found.