Insect Life Cycles/Colony Collapse Disorder
Insects undergo several growth and development stages during their life cycle. There are three distinct processes that different insects undergo as they grow. The processes are; ametabolism, hemimetabolism, and holometabolism (Mackean 2004).
This is the simplest type of all development processes and is used by primitive insects like silverfish. The insects emerge from the eggs with the same body plan as the adults and increase in size without changing shape until they mature.
Hemimetabolism
In this process, the insect undergoes gradual progressive change until it attains sexual maturity. The stages involved in this process are; egg, nymph, and adult. At ...