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Life stage
A life stage is an individual stage in the life of an insect. These stages are often very different in appearance from the other life stages. For example, the life stages for a butterfly are:
- egg
- caterpillar
- pupae
- adult/imago
Related terms
- Caterpillar
- Chrysalis
- Complete metamorphosis
- Egg
- Endopterygota
- Exopterygota
- Imago
- Incomplete metamorphosis
- Instar
- Larva
- Life cycle
- Pupa
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