Silver fish, grasshoppers, mantids and cockroaches are examples of these insects. Their young – called nymphs – look like ...

Researchers have studied gene expression dynamics during metamorphosis in two species of flies. Published in the Genome Biology and Evolution, the study aims to identify patterns of changes in gene ...

Shutterstock It turns out that while all bugs are insects, all insects aren’t bugs. So if you’re an insect, I guess maybe you ...

Complete metamorphosis transforms caterpillars into butterflies, reshaping not only the bodies of the insects but their behaviors and identities. New work reveals in detail for the first time how ...

Understanding Insect Metamorphosis John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage ...

Rivka Galchen on the entomologist James Truman’s research studying the process of metamorphosis in insects.

Franz Kafka ’s most famous story, “The Metamorphosis,” details one man’s change into a cockroach. I can sympathize: I’ve experienced my own transformation into a computer bug, as I’ve ...

Predators are far more likely to attack adult moths than caterpillars, highlighting the protective power of metamorphosis.

Why do butterflies and other insects actually do this metamorphosis thing? What's it really for? So forget everything you thought you knew about how a caterpillar to butterfly pipeline works.

"I have always been disillusioned with the limits of human growth," Sabrina Imbler writes. "But insects have a much more fantastic notion of growing up." ...

Complete metamorphosis transforms caterpillars into butterflies, reshaping not only the bodies of the insects but their behaviors and identities. New work reveals in detail for the first time how ...

An insect with incomplete metamorphosis has 3 life stages: egg, nymphs, and adult (no pupa). Eggs hatch to a small nymph, which resembles (not perfectly) what the adult will look like.