TYPES OF METAMORPHOSIS 21 



To this stage belongs primarily the function of feeding and growing. 

 The adult insect may or may not feed, but it never grows. To the 

 adult stage belongs the function of mating and thus perpetuating the 

 race. The pupa, which we find in insects with complete metamor- 

 phosis, represents a resting stage devised to accommodate the tre- 

 mendous changes taking place in the transformation of the wormlike 

 larva into the winged adult. 



The type of metamorphosis constitutes a fundamental character in 

 separating insects into groups. 



