The outside of an insect is called its exoskeleton. Certain insects, such as beetles, have a hard exoskeleton called a carapace. The exoskelton of an insect is made from a protein called chitin.
In most groups, nothing. In beetles and earwigs, the elytra (shields), but these are really modified forewings, so really still nothing. :P In butterflies, the wings are covered BY small scales which also carry the pigment for their vivid colours.
There's one group of small flies where the pronotum (part of the small shield covering the thorax) has become enlarged and covers the wings like the elytra do in beetles. They're called Celyphidae, look them up if you're curious as to how this works.
it is called a chrysalis
It is pupa stage .
The next stage after the pupa is the adult...... because when insects are born they are called magets.......then pupa.......then adult it is the cycle of insect life.
Chrysalis or pupa.
The third stage of an complete metamorphoses is pupa.
The imago is the final stage in the metamorphosis of an insect, which comes out of the pupa.
yes there is many like the butterfly :)
This is called a pupa (or sometimes a chrysalis)
Depends on what type of insect it is for. many species have pupal stage.
Being able to reproduce sexually. Answer from K12 :)
The insect transformed to a new appearance and change the old one.
The purpose of the pupa stage is so it can be protected from any harm that may be outside, so it encases itself in a safe envicronment so it can grow safely without defects. pupa is the resting stage. The larvae has to metamorphose into an adult whose body design is completely different from it's caterpillar design. hence all body parts have to grow into anew part, Its something like a baby growing from a foetus well protected fom externa factors. This is why a caterpilar gorges on food and stock energy in its body to be ued later
I'm not certain that this is always the case, but I heard that most caterpillars will go into a comatose state, as their body liquidates. They release a bunch of chemicals into the liquid caterpillar mixture which direct the reassembly process that ultimately results in a butterfly or moth.