A whopping 75 percent of known insects—among them bees, beetles, flies, and moths—develop in four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Most striking about complete metamorphosis is how ...

We take for granted this fascinating metamorphosis that almost seems like ... How in the world does a caterpillar go in and a butterfly or moth comes out? It turns out that it not only seems ...

Moths have a four-part life cycle: egg, caterpillar, cocoon and moth. The caterpillar phase is often the longest-lasting actively mobile part of the life cycle, and caterpillars might be thought ...

Ironically, perhaps, the stunning moth, in the fourth part of the life cycle, is the briefest of the four phases. The adult moth lives perhaps a week. In essence, it is a flying gonad, living only ...