NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Complete, or holometabolous, metamorphosis is characteristic of beetles, butterflies and moths, flies, and wasps. Their life cycle includes four stages: egg, larva (q.v.), pupa (q.v.), and adult. The larva differs greatly from the adult.

Detailed explanation-2: -A larva is the immature form of an insect, typically a butterfly or moth, that undergoes metamorphosis into a pupa and then an adult. A pupa is the intermediate stage in the development of an insect, after it has hatched from an egg and before it becomes an adult.

Detailed explanation-3: -The four stages are egg, larva, pupa and adult.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some insects (like butterflies, but also beetles, flies, and bees) develop by complete metamorphosis with 4 life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

Detailed explanation-5: -Butterflies, moths, beetles, flies and bees have complete metamorphosis. The young (called a larva instead of a nymph) is very different from the adults. It also usually eats different types of food. There are four stages in the metamorphosis of butterflies and moths: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.