what is a name for a mature insect?
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That is called the 'adult stage' or 'imago'
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It's impossible to identify the worm from that description.  There are a number of options.\n\nHowever, my best guess is that it is a horsehair worm.  Horsehair worms are rather fascinating creatures, possibly responsible for inspiring the film "Alien".  Adult worms live in water where they lay their eggs.  The eggs hatch into larvae, who make their way to an appropriate place to be eaten!  Once an insect (usually a grasshopper or a relative, such as cockroaches) eats them, they crawl out of it's digestive system and live in it's abdomen, growing every larger.  When they become adults, they secrete a chemical, causing the insect to get very thirsty.  It rushes to the nearest body of water, where the horsehair worm tears it's way out of the insects stomach and into the water, where it looks for another horsehair worm so it can start the whole process over again.
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try this:\n\nhttp://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/zo150/mozley/fall/insectCS.jpg
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When locusts aren't being locusts they are just grasshoppers. They are not bugs. \nI have no idea what Figure 19 is. Here are some links with life history stages of grasshoppers or locusts depicted and explained: \nhttp://www.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/biol120/locust/locust.htm\nhttp://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/grasshopper/ghlcycle.htm\nhttp://www.4to40.com/earth/geography/htm/insectsindex.asp?counter=16\nHere are some scientific articles on "Locusta migratoria" "life history" \nhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Locusta+migratoria%22+%22life+history\nLocusta migratoria is the species name of the locust that plagues Africa. Life history is the term generally used by scientists, rather than life cycle. I would link to the best articles, but not all of them are accessible to the general public--you would need to be on a university computer network like me.
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A collective name for a group of butterflies is called a 'Kaleidoscope'.  \n   However others have called it a 'Swarm' or 'Rabble'.   \n   In addition, the collective name for a group of caterpillars is 'an army'
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Maggots are Fly larvae
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A roly-poly or pillbug!\n\nThey get their name from the fact that they roll up into a ball when predators are near or they feel threatened.\n\n:)
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After the last of several molts the larva is transformed into a pupa with a hard, often sculptured outer integument, within which it changes to the adult form. The butterfly pupa is called a chrysalis, or chrysalid. Most chrysalids (unlike the pupae of most moths) are not enclosed in a cocoon; however, they are usually suspended from some object by a silken thread and may have a partial covering. Except in those species that winter in the pupa stage, the adult usually emerges from the integument in two or three weeks. Members of some species winter in the egg stage, others as larvae or adults. The adults of most species, however, live only about a month.
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If you see two adult butterflies with their abdomens linked tail-to-tail, they are mating. The male grasps the female and deposits a sperm packet, which fertilizes the female's eggs. The butterflies can fly while mating, but they usually avoid moving unless they are disturbed. \n\nButterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis in which they go through four different life stages. \nEgg - A butterfly starts its life as an egg. \nLarva - The larva (caterpillar) hatches from an egg and eats leaves or flowers almost constantly. The caterpillar molts (loses its old skin) many times as it grows. \nPupa - It turns into a pupa (chrysalis); this is a resting stage. \nAdult - A beautiful, flying adult emerges. There is no growth during this stage. This adult will continue the cycle and reproduce.
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Lake species of insects have larvae, as do many other animals. Lakes themselves do not have larvae, because lakes do not reproduce.
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Although many insects are termed "flies," only those having one pair of wings belong to the insect Order Diptera.  There are more than 110,000 described species of flies in the world.
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Well the latin name Hemiptera mean "half-wing", that is because the majority of the representatives in the sub order Heteroptera actually have a thickened membranous portion at the basal half of the wing and a membranous textured section at the apical half.\nNow the term BUG is only a common name, and it is given to any inset that has the modified mouthpart called a stylet. This is a hardened "beak" thtat allows this diverse group to pierce into plant and animal tissues (mostly other insects). It is this haustellate mouthpart assembly that really charaterises the order, but the common name is most likely like all the others, just made up with no real meaning. Look at words like dragonfly, mayfly, cockroach, things like that that actually dont have any true reflection on the insect itself, they are simply common names that laymen can use to easily identify those orders of insects.\nThere are three distinct sub-orders within the Hemiptera, well actually 4 but three very major ones, these are the Heteroptera "true bugs", the Auchenorryncha, which includes the cicadas, tree hoppers and leafhoppers, and the Sternorryncha, which includes the scale insects, aphids, and mealy bugs.\nall three sub orders are called bugs, very loosely.\n\nhere is an image of some true bugs, they all have the piercing sucking stylet I mentioned earlier:\n\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/44005\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/36112\n\ncheck out the stylet on this guy!\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/63287\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/33426
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Bugs are a separate division in the insect class.....
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Officially, a bug is a member of the order Hemiptera which is part of the Insects. The term is used unofficially for other creepy crawlies as well and the name bug is also used for crustaceans in Australia ie Balmain bug.\n\nThe correct version is that a bug is a type of insect.
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All insects including the cockroaches have what is known as an exoskeleton. This is like having an outter shell, kind of like a suit of shining armour...That is the best analogy I could come up with.\nThey do not have an internal skeleton like vertebrates do, in fact the exoskeleton is characteristic of all Arthropods, from the insects, to crabs and lobsters, to ticks, centipedes mites and scorpions.\n\nhope ths answers your question
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Yes the beetle is an insect.\n\nGood rule to help you identify insect in the future, \n\nIf it has 6 legs, antennae and mandibles chances are it is an insect
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There are three larval stages (called instars) for calliphoridae.  Basically each instar represents the growth of the larvae.  The first instar is approximately 5 mm long after 1.8 days.  The second instar is approximately 10 mm long after 2.5 days.  The third instar is approximately 17 mm long after 4-5 days.  I hope this information helps.  :)