The pupation process of Papilio polytes was observed yesterday where the caterpillar was seen to curl on the twig around 700 am in the morning. It stayed in the same static position and if you look at it properly, it sometimes wriggled its body slowly. This is the process where it sheds the cuticle@skin from the inside. Around 930 pm, the process was completed with a full transformation into a pupa. The old catty cuticle was removed and fell at the bottom. Overall, the pupation process takes approximately 14 hours.
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