Deciding What to Do > Pests > Insects
Insects change in shape and or size as they grow older. There are two major life-cycles that insects can go through.





  Simple Metamorphosis
The juvenile looks and lives like the adult
(True bugs, cockroaches, earwigs and aphids)


Egg

Juveniles (stages: nymphs)

Adults
  Complete Metamorphosis
The juvenile looks and lives very different than the adult
(Beatles, flies, moths, ants and fleas)


Egg

Larva (stages: instars)

Pupa

Adult

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