When it wants to fly, the beetle opens up the wing case and exposes the front wings. Beetles are also defined by their ...

the pupal stage is also aquatic. After two days, a fully developed adult mosquito forms and breaks through the skin of the pupa. The adult mosquito can fly and has a terrestrial habitat.

71-79 (9 pages) Degree-day accumulations and puparial duration of the Mexican fruit fly ... puparial stage may be prolonged up to three months in the winter or be as brief as three weeks in the summer ...

The pupa stage lasts several weeks, after which a new adult fly emerges, ready to find its first blood meal. Adult tsetse flies can live for several months, feeding and reproducing throughout ...