Note the time, date, and weather on your worksheet or in your journal if you want to repeat this activity in a different location or on a different day. Using the Ladybug Metamorphosis Scavenger Hunt Worksheet (or your own nature journal), put a tally mark next to each stage you see to document your findings. There are four stages in the metamorphosis of butterflies and moths: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. You can use the 'helpful hints' below to get some clues on where to look! Remember, the garden is a home to these insects, so please touch plants gently - we don't want to hurt them or animals living on them. Other species, such as grasshoppers and dragonflies, experience incomplete, or simple, metamorphosis, which involves three life stagesegg, larva or nymph, and adult or imago. If you can safely explore outdoors, go outside and look on and under leaves to see how many different stages of ladybug metamorphosis you can find. Each species of insect has different looking eggs, larva, pupa, and adult stages. Note: The diagram only depicts the four distinct stages of complete metamorphosis and represents a generic bug. Adults mate and lay eggs, starting the cycle again! The young ones are aquatic and are called naiads. Dragonfly, damselfly and mayfly Egg naiad adult Life stages.

Finally, out of the pupa emerges an adult. Hemimetabola (Incomplete metamorphosis) e.g.

Some of these embryos may have survived long enough to find food in the outside world and this may have ended up giving them an advantage, as they would be able to feed longer and gain more strength than their peers before metamorphosing into the adult stage. Frog eggs (or frogspawn) differ from the eggs of birds or reptiles, as they have no solid outer shell.

Frogspawn consists mostly of translucent, jelly-like albumen. Pupas are the вЂteenageвЂ™ stage and they are 'resting' in one place. Some scientists believe that the larval stage of complete metamorphosis may have evolved from insects which hatched from their eggs without developing properly. The first phase of a frogвЂ™s life is the egg phase. The larva is a вЂkidвЂ™ stage -В it usually moves around and eats a lot (if you were a bug, you would be a larva right now)! Next, the egg hatches and out comes a larva.First, the insect is an egg:В this is the вЂbaby'.В They stay in one place and grow.

Stages of metamorphosis