What type of metamorphosis do toads go through?

Answer 1

When the butterfly egg hatches, a tiny caterpillar comes out of it. The caterpillar (also called a larva) feeds and grows, and changes its skin a few times (about 3 to 6 times, four in most kinds of butterfly) until it reaches its largest size.

Each time it changes its skin, we say the caterpillar is in a new instar).

Then the caterpillar of most kinds of butterfly will make a silken pad to hold onto with its hind legs, and many kinds also make a silken belt to hold themselves in place like a safety belt.

Then the larva changes its skin and its shape and turns into a pupa, which does not have any obvious legs or wings. Inside the pupa it grows all the extra things a grown-up butterfly needs.

When that is done, it changes its skin for the last time and out comes a soft, misshapen adult butterfly (the adult also is called the imago). The imago pumps itself up into shape with its own blood and perhaps with some air it swallowed, and hardens its skin to hold its new shape, and that is the end of its metamorphosis.

If nothing goes wrong, the butterfly imago then will find a food plant for its own larvae (one larva, two larvae) to eat, and it will lay new eggs there.

Such a metamorphosis: Egg, Larva (caterpillar with its instars), Pupa, and Imago, is what we call a

Complete metamorphosis.

Some other kinds of insects, such as grasshoppers, do not have a complete metamorphosis -- they do not form a pupa. We say that they have an incomplete metamorphosis, but that is not a very good name, because they complete their metamorphosis to become adults. All that an incomplete metamorphosis means is that they do not form a pupa at any time.

Answer 2

First it is an egg, (laid by an adult butterfly) then a larva (Look, it's a caterpillar!), next a pupa, or chrysalis <- did I spell that right? , and then a gorgeous butterfly (or a dusty moth, in other cases) emerges from the pupa case. Ya happy?

Answer 3

Because their adult stage is completely different from their larval stage, toads undergo complete metamorphosis.

Answer 4

Amphibians undergo a complete metamorphosis, unlike all other vertebrates.

Answer 5

A honey bee worker needs 21 days to emerge as a fully developed bee. It spends 3 days as an egg, 6 days as a pupa and a further 12 days as a larva.

Answer 6

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