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The role of copepods in the marine food chain
Copepods are tiny oceanic crustaceans with prodigious appetites.
Watch a caterpillar larva eat milkweed, form a pupa, and emerge as a monarch butterfly
Learn about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).
View the hatching of the cabbage white caterpillars from eggs
Time-lapse video, filmed over two days, of cabbage white caterpillars (Pieris...
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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).
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bags of the creosote bush bagworm moth
Bags of the creosote bush bagworm moth (Thyridopteryx meadi). Larvae live...
William E. Ferguson
larva of the seven-spotted ladybird beetle
Larva of seven-spotted ladybird beetle (Coccinella septempunctata).
N.A. Callow—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
eel metamorphosis
Metamorphosis of the American eel (Anguilla rostrata). (A–C) Larvae, or...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
life cycle of the monarch butterfly
Life cycle of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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