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The infestation cycle continues when the maggots emerge 10 days later, drop from the fruit and burrow two to three centimeters into the dirt to pupate.

Warmer springs mean that caterpillars hatch, grow and pupate earlier compared with just a few decades ago.

They’re growing out of a butterfly larva, now dead, that had buried itself in the soil to pupate.

The flies lay eggs on the lake surface, producing larvae that swim down to the microbialites, where they pupate before maturing into adults.

Like all beetles, the firefly cycles through a complete metamorphosis—hatching from its egg as a crawling larva before pupating into a mature adult.