In holometabolous insects, the larval body is almost completely decomposed and reconstructed into the adult body during the pupal-pharate adult stages. Therefore, the total energetic cost of this process is a key thermodynamic quantity necessary for evaluating the benefit of their life history. Here, we measured whole-body thermal dissipation of single pupae of the fruit fly,
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