Complete metamorphosis transforms caterpillars into butterflies, reshaping not only the bodies of the insects but their behaviors and identities. New work reveals in detail for the first time how ...

University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources alumna Stacy Wolff received the Monarch Butterfly ...

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. Insects may have complete or incomplete (simple) ...

In insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae are called nymphs. Many, such as grasshoppers, look and behave much like tiny versions of the adult insects.

The book discusses insect metamorphosis as a key innovation in insect evolution. With most of the present biodiversity on Earth composed of metamorphosing insects--approximately 1 million species ...

Their finding explains, for the first time, why insect metamorphosis, just like human puberty, is an irreversible process. It is irreversible since DNA duplication cannot be reversed in cells.

Jesus Lozano, Raúl Montañez, Xavier Belles, MiR-2 family regulates insect metamorphosis by controlling the juvenile hormone signaling pathway, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ...