Of Pupae and Pupils (Minicast) - 10 Aug. 2011
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🗓️ 10 August 2011
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:51.4 | Over in our Facebook page the other day Raquel from San Francisco told |
| 0:56.3 | us that recently she'd attended a class on urban gardening. And in this class they talked |
| 1:01.8 | about bees and other insects and someone mentioned the word |
| 1:04.7 | Pupa. Pupa. Now the pupil stage of an insect's life occurs between the larval stage and adulthood. |
| 1:13.0 | While the insect is a pupa, it's usually immobile, |
| 1:17.0 | and it's also encased in a protective covering. |
| 1:20.0 | And inside, all these marvelous chemical processes are going on. The creature's |
| 1:26.0 | larval structures are breaking down as it reshapes itself into an adult. |
| 1:31.3 | Anyway, Rakell wondered about that word pupa. Does it have anything to do, she asked, with the word pupil? |
| 1:39.0 | As in student, after all, they're both young and they're not quite shaped as adults. |
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