Insect Larvae, Nymphs, and Pupae
This list includes all kinds of insect larvae and pupae! Insects can have complete (holometabolous) or incomplete (hemimetabolous) metamorphosis. Complete metamorphosis includes egg-larva-pupa-adult. The stages of incomplete metamorphosis are: egg-nymph-adult.
Christine Young created this list 7 years ago
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Colourful caterpillar, Costa Rica -
American Angle Shades Caterpillar - Euplexia benesimilis -
Golden chrysalis exposed by flashlight -
Caterpillar of an Owl butterfly (Caligo spec.) -
Very hairy caterpillar (Megalopyge albicollis) -
Filament bearer caterpillar from Caribbean Costa Rica (Nematocampa spec.) -
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle Pupa - Harmonia axyridis -
Black Swallowtail Caterpillar - Papilio polyxenes -
Insect Larva covered in Frass -
Caterpillar -
Two-striped Planthopper Nymph - Acanalonia bivittata -
Ribbed Cocoon-maker moth Cocoon - Bucculatrix sp. -
Sawfly Larvae - Tenthredinidae -
Planthopper Nymph - Jikradia olitoria -
Tree Cricket Nymph - Oecanthus sp. -
Dogwood Sawfly Larvae - Macremphytus sp. -
Inchworm, Nimbokrang, Papua -
Geometer moth caterpillar, Nimbokrang, Papua -
Mottled Umber - Erannis defoliaria -
Eastern Tent Caterpillar - Malacosoma americanum -
Noctuid Caterpillar, possibly Lithophane antennata -
Short-winged meadow katydid - Conocephalus brevipennis -
Sawfly Larva - Tenthredinidae -
Common Eupithecia Caterpillar - Eupithecia miserulata