“For me, it was a road-to-Damascus type of moment,” James Truman, an entomologist, told me, recalling an encounter when he was sixteen. “My family had a summer place, a trailer, on the shores of Lake ...

Truman and his team have now learned how much metamorphosis reshuffles parts of the brain. In a recent study published in the journal eLife, they traced dozens of neurons in the brains of fruit flies ...

John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. “What happens inside a chrysalis during metamorphosis?” asked Chris, writing from ...

A research team of scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton University has provided insights into the origins of complete metamorphosis in insects. More than 60% of all animal species ...

entmain copy 39088019137645 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents 1. The evolution of ideas on insect metamorphosis -- 2. A spectacular diversity of forms and ...

While it might seem like an all-or-nothing process, insect metamorphosis likely emerged through gradual evolutionary changes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The three modes of insect postembryonic development are ametaboly, hemimetaboly and holometaboly, the latter being considered the only significant metamorphosis mode. However, the emergence of ...

The terms "bug" and "insect" are commonly used interchangeably in everyday language, yet scientifically, they refer to distinct categories of creatures. Insects belong to the vast class Insecta, ...