Insects may have complete or incomplete (simple) metamorphosis. The life cycle of insects with complete metamorphosis includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Eggs hatch to give rise to a worm-like larva ...

Before the second winter, the larvae reach their final stage but don't pupate. Instead, they enter obligatory diapause, a natural dormancy phase in their life cycle.

Ant pupae—which are equivalent to the chrysalis stage of the butterfly—produce a milklike substance derived from molting fluid that is eaten by both adult ants and larvae. Typically, when insects molt ...

Butterflies and caterpillars frequently host parasitoids, insects that attack and destroy their hosts, sometimes eating them alive. These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, ...