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A banded woolly bear caterpillar (Pyrrharctia isabella) with fuzzy black and orange bands crawls on a textured wooden surface.
Axolotl wearing a green paper hat in the style of Peter Pan, with speech bubble reading “I'll never grow up!”
Indian meal moth larva citrus swallowtail butterfly bags of the creosote bush bagworm moth Ox warble fly larva Ladybug larva Illustration showing seven types of beetle larvae, each with distinct shapes and textures, including white grub, linden borer, water-penny, aquatic beetles, carpet beetle, and buprestid larva, with scientific names labeled. Dragonfly larva Illustration showing the metamorphosis of the American eel (Anguilla rostrata), with seven stages labeled A to G. The top three show increasingly larger transparent larvae, followed by three transitional forms, and ending with a more developed, elongated glass eel.
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What is So Unique About the Axolotl?
Axolotls are kind of the Peter Pan of salamanders.
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The role of copepods in the marine food chain
Copepods are tiny oceanic crustaceans with prodigious appetites.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
View the hatching of the cabbage white caterpillars from eggs
Time-lapse video, filmed over two days, of cabbage white caterpillars (Pieris...
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Markus Staab/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Woolly bear
A banded woolly bear caterpillar is the larval stage of the Isabella tiger moth (Pyrrharctia...
© Paul Reeves/Dreamstime.com
Indian meal moth larva
Indian meal moth larva (Plodia interpunctella)
Scott Bauer—Agricultural Research Service/U.S. Department of Agriculture
citrus swallowtail butterfly
The larva of a citrus swallowtail butterfly (Papilo aegeus).
© Digital Vision/Getty Images
bags of the creosote bush bagworm moth
Bags of the creosote bush bagworm moth (Thyridopteryx meadi). Larvae live...
William E. Ferguson
Ox warble fly larva
Ox warble fly larva (Hypoderma bovis)
William E. Ferguson
Ladybug larva
Larva of seven-spotted ladybug beetle (Coccinella septempunctata).
N.A. Callow—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Beetle larvae
Diversity of beetle larvae.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Dragonfly larva
A dragonfly larva captures a fish by extending its labial mask.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
eel metamorphosis
Metamorphosis of the American eel (Anguilla rostrata). (A–C) Larvae, or...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
flea life cycle
Stages in the life cycle of fleas.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Honeybee life cycle
The life cycle of the honeybee.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Housefly life cycle
Life cycle of the housefly.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
life cycle of the monarch butterfly
Life cycle of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Life cycle of the tortoise beetle.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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