Pupates is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 181 anagrams from letters in pupates (aeppstu).
First recorded in 1875-80; pup(a) + -ate1
When ready to pupate they go a short distance into the ground.
The larvae then bore their way out of the fruit and drop to the soil where they pupate.
pupate, Pupation: to become a pupa: the act of becoming a pupa.
The larvae complete their growth in four or five weeks when they enter the ground to pupate.
Here they molt again, or pupate as it is called, changing to a non-feeding, quiescent stage called the pupal stage.
That caterpillar did not, however, pupate, or survive the winter.
As soon as the larv have completed their development they pupate.
It molts three times, and in from twelve to twenty days is ready to pupate, or change to a chrysalis.
The larv feed upon the foliage until about July first and then crawl to the ground in which they form cells and pupate.
They pupate underground in an earthen cell, from which the adult beetle crawls out and flies up to the tree-tops.