Eggs 



Young 

 larva 



Eggs 



Young 



Grasshopper {Melanoplus) 



Pupa Adult 



June bug (Melolontha) 



Egg on 

 paoralyzed 

 caterpillar 



Larva 



Pupa 



Wasp iSphex) 



METAMORPHOSIS IN INSECTS 



In some orders of insects, the young hatching out of the eggs resemble the adults of 

 the species, although they lack wings. Since they have an external skeleton, they can 

 grow only while this is still soft. After feeding awhile a young insect molts, or casts off 

 its hard shell, and then grows rapidly until a new exoskeleton hardens 



