Insect Life Cycles

What makes the adult stage of an insect different from the previous stages? Adult insects -

• Needs the most food.

• Can reproduce.

• It doesn't have wings.

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This image shows a monarch caterpillar. A caterpillar represents which stage in the monarch’s life cycle?

• an egg

• a larva

• a pupa

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Some insects, such as grasshoppers, only have three stages in their life cycles. Instead of a larva and a pupa stage, they have a nymph stage. During the nymph stage, the young grasshopper looks like a smaller version of the adult, but it does not have any–

• legs.

• antenna.

• wings.

The diagram shows an insect going through metamorphosis. The life cycle begins when the beetle produces -

• an egg.

• a larva.

• an adult.

For a monarch caterpillar to transform into a butterfly, it must pass through a stage that is sometimes called a chrysalis. This image shows a monarch chrysalis. The chrysalis represents which stage in the life cycle of the butterfly?

• Adult

• Larva

• Pupa

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