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What are the characteristics of larva?

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Caterpillars are :

* the larval stage of life of a moth or butterfly (insects) which occurs in indirect development, ie change form from one stage to the next. (In insects, the stages are 1: egg, 2: larva, 3: pupa/chrysalis/cocoon, 4: adult).

* vary in size but may measure up to 2-3 inches depending on species and age * are segmented, with a tubular shape, and more then 6 times the number of muscles a human has. * have 6 simple eyes for detecting light (non-directional, not-focusing)

* soft-bodied * many-legged * use antennae to locate food

* most feed on leaves

* varied in color and pattern, some even having spines or pseudo-horns * Serve as protein-rich food for other insects, animals, even humans * species have developed a variety of self-defense mechanisms, such as barbed hairs, toxicity, or the ability to escape on a line of silk.

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The worms is a living organism that has no limbs. The habitat is usually in the soil below the ground. The worm has a very interesting characteristic of having both female and male parts which enable the worm to reproduce with any other worm or to regrow from a dismembered segment. This is called sexual and asexual reproduction.

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Amphibian larva - tadpoles in the case of frogs, tadpoles with feathery gills in the case of salamanders, little worms in the case of caecilians.

Insect larva - wingless. Some are legless (maggots (fly larvae)), some have six legs (grubs (beetle larvae)) and some have six true legs and multiple pseudolegs behind them (caterpillars (butterfly/moth larvae)).

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They have bilateral symmetry, many have appendages, some have sense organs, some have light sense organs have smooth bodies, able to rejoin bodies and are invertebrates
long and slimy

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