These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, caterpillar or pupa. Parasitoids start their lives as parasites, in or on the body of a host, but they end up as predators, eating the ...
The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage ... body that have ...
When they are big enough, the caterpillars turn into pupae. Inside the pupa, the caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. After a few days or weeks, the adult butterfly will hatch from the pupa.