We took a up-close look at some amazing animals in class. We looked at cockroaches because they go through incomplete metamorphosis. We were able to observe how the nymphs were very similar to the adults. Then we looked at darkling beetles. The larva are called meal worms and look like little brown striped worms. They crawled all over the place. The pupa looked weird, but we could see where the eyes would be and the legs were forming. Also, the pupa hardly moved. Finally the adults were beetles. They looked totally different from the larva and pupa!
Then we picked an insect that went through complete metamorphosis and one that went through incomplete metamorphosis and did a project showing that insect or amphibian at each stage. Check out what we learned!