Usually the caterpillar feeds up and pupates the same year, but on the moors in Aberdeenshire and some other parts of Scotland it is said to hibernate and to complete its life cycle the following summer and autumn.
After enjoying the sunshine whenever the opportunity offers through the early months of the year, it finally pupates in March or April.
It hibernates when full grown, and pupates in the following spring.
The eggs are usually laid on the food-plant of the larva; the larva feeds on the leaves of this plant, grows, molts several times, and pupates either in the ground or in a silken cocoon or simply attached to a branch or leaf.
Often, indeed, it pupateswith the parasite still in its body.
It pupates in the gall, and when adult eats its way out.
The nest is then closed up by the female, and the larva hatching from the egg feeds on the enclosed helpless insects until full grown, when it pupates in the cell and the issuing adult gnaws and pushes its way out of the ground.
The caterpillar, however, pupateslong before this time.
When fully grown the maggot works its way through the hole in the host's skin, and falling to the ground pupates in some sheltered spot, the life cycle occupying about a year.
Similarly the Horse-bot escapes from the host's intestine with the excrement, and pupates on the ground.
By April it has become fully grown and pupates in an earthen chamber a few inches below the surface.
Smith (1945) stated that the larva feeds on one cockroach egg after another until all are destroyed; by that time it is full grown and it pupates within the ootheca.
The egg hatches in 2 days, the larva pupates about 2 weeks later, and the adult emerges 24 days later.
The wasp passes the winter as a last instar larva and pupates in the spring; the adult emerges during the spring or in June.
The larva seeks a sheltered area and pupates within 48 hours.
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