pupae

I’d describe silk worm pupae fried with butter as having a flavor akin to nutty cheese.

Hundreds of late-stage pupae were removed from brood frames and allowed to emerge under sterile conditions in laboratory.

You can also add some small fish — many species of fish think that mosquito larvae and pupae are delicious.

There were these grubs/pupae that i had deep fried somewhere in rural thailand that were extraordinary.

In contrast, their pupae have ganglia more typical of other insects, with about 7400 nuclei in the central nervous system.

You can kill mosquito pupae in water by spraying with an oil that makes a surface film for a few days.

They raid other acorn ant colonies, kill adult ants indiscriminately, and abscond with their pupae.

Silkworm pupae score very well, but silkworms have been cultivated since forever and remain expensive.

It will body slam any insects that approach, knocking them away from the pupae.

However, the enslaved ants opportunistically kill the queen pupae of the slave maker ants.

Most insects go through distinct metamorphosis[1]: egg -> larva -> pupae -> adult.

When the scientist compared the neurons of adult and pupae fairy wasps, he discovered that more than 95% of adult neurons lack a nucleus.

Pupae are an interesting exception, perhaps, though for the most part when talking edible insects I suspect people think crickets and the like.