One example is the importance of pollinators. It is estimated that only about 3% of insects are pests. Metamorphosis refers to the insect’s life cycle, and how it changes and grows into an adult.

What you see here isn’t an animation from Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. This is a close-up of a swallowtail caterpillar, taken by ...

Lots of animals metamorphose, but we know most about insects. What can it mean for a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly, which looks so different, and yet retains its essence, the ability to ...

It explains how insects differ from other arthropods and highlights their reproductive methods, including incomplete and complete metamorphosis. The film discusses the ecological roles of insects ...

Looking back to 2022, a Spotted Lanternfly adult was sighted in Ottawa County near Port Clinton. The next year began the ...

Seventeenth-century German artist, scientific illustrator and naturalist, Anna Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) is best known for her travels and research in Dutch Suriname, South America. At a time ...

Each insect has 4,000 muscles that it uses to move, with each segment having 70 muscles alone. When a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis, it sheds its prolegs in favor of wings. Its legs are shed ...