Inside a tunnel, ball, or pat, once the larvae hatch, they consume the dung before metamorphosing into a pupa and then an adult beetle.

在通道、粪球或粪块之内，一旦幼虫孵化出来，会以粪便为食，直至成蛹，之成为成年蜣螂。

And it's not long till they start the incredible transformation from pupae into something's really rather magical.

过不了多久，它们就开始了令人难以置信的转变，从蛹变成了非常神奇的东西。

Each pupa will produce a magnificent butterfly.

每个蛹都会变成一只炫丽的蝴蝶。

This installation consists of two rooms, one in which live butterflies hatch from pupae embedded in white paintings, and another in which dead butterflies are pressed onto the surfaces of brightly coloured canvasses.

这件组装品包括两个空间，一个放由嵌在白色油漆中的蛹羽化而成的活蝴蝶，另一个放被压在鲜艳画布表面上的死蝴蝶。

The larva is fed by the working bees, and in a few days it makes for itself a hard skin, and is called a pupa.

工负责给幼虫喂食。几天之, 它们便会长出坚硬的皮肤, 这就是蛹。

Once they are fully grown, the caterpillars will attach themselves to the underside of a leaf or branch and form a pupa, or chrysalis.

毛毛虫一旦完全长大，就会附在树叶或树枝的底部，然形成蛹或者茧。

" And to our surprise, we found that nurse bees with pupae slept even less than the bees that were housed with feeding larvae."

“令我们惊讶的是，我们现看护蛹的至比看护幼的睡得更少。”

The large queen, along with her precious larvae and pupae, are kept safe and dry in the middle.

蚁和她珍贵的幼虫以及蛹，被安全干燥地保存在中间。

It takes at least eight days for a fly to go from an egg to a pupa.

一只苍蝇从卵变成蛹至少要八天。

So, yeah, pupae essentially eat themselves.

所以，是的，蛹基本上是吃掉了自己。

Those hormones tell cells to activate digestive enzymes to break apart the cell's proteins and other parts, and the pupa recycles this protein to fuel the rest of metamorphosis.

这些激素告诉细胞激活消化酶来分解细胞的蛋白质和其他部分，蛹回收这种蛋白质来促进剩余的蜕变过程。

An insect lays an egg, which changes first into a grub or cater-pillar, then into a pupa or chrysalis, and lastly into an insect.

昆虫产卵, 然孵化为幼虫或毛虫, 再变成蛹并最终生长为昆虫。

" Indeed, in our observations, we saw that the nurses were incubating the pupae at the expense of sleep."

“事实上，在我们的观察中，我们看到看护在以睡眠为代价孵化蛹。”

Thanks to all the energy and protein stored up during the larva phase, the pupa is physiologically self-sufficient and lives off the nutrients it consumed as a caterpillar.

由于在幼虫阶段储存了所有的能量和蛋白质，蛹在生理上是自给自足的，并以毛毛虫所消耗的营养为生。

So the researchers replaced the larvae with pupae, a developmental stage that doesn't require constant feeding.

因此，研究人员用蛹代替了幼，蛹是一种不需要持续进食的阶段。

And if you thought the run up to the pupa stage was weird, just wait, things get even stranger and cooler from here.

如果你认为展到蛹阶段很奇怪，就等吧，事情从这里变得更加奇怪且酷。

So now we're on metamorphosis stage three, where the caterpillar is now a pupa.

现在我们进入蜕变阶段三，毛毛虫变成蛹。

This cleans them and kills the pupa inside.

这会清洁它们并杀死里面的蛹。

So then the pupae will crawl up and they'll pupate in there.

这样蛹就会爬上去，在那里化蛹。

She may have observed the adult moth just as it emerged from its pupa.

她可能已经观察到成虫刚从蛹中出来。