### animal | larva:

Mealworm
* Most mealworms change into beetles
  - eat grain
  - feed on vegetation
  - go through metamorphosis
* Most mealworms have many natural predators
  - live on diets
  - turn into pupas
  - use energy
* Some mealworms become pests.
* Some mealworms eat decay leaves
  - pets
  - substances
  - feed diets
* Some mealworms have exoskeletons
  - joint legs
  - life
  - shelf life
  - sources
  - tough exoskeletons
  - make up diets
* Some mealworms prefer environments
  - habitats
  - human environments
* Some mealworms shed exoskeletons
  - outer skin
* Some mealworms undergo complete metamorphosis
* also like to hide under things
  - make a delicious and nutritious treat for bluebirds and other wild birds
  - show great potential as a source of protein for human nutrition
* are a favorite food or treat for many different pets and critters
  - great way to teach about the life cycle
  - healthy food for many birds and mammals as well
  - particular favorite of the bluebirds and robins
  - pest in grain storages
  - also a great bait
  - an earth-friendly source of protein, researchers say
* are another good food source
  - source of food for tree frogs
  - another, larger, wiggly grub often available in bait shops
  - both the cleanest and most practical insect to breed
* are easy to breed and feed, and have a valuable protein profile
  - maintain in the classroom because they require very little care
  - maintain, and can be kept in one of two ways
  - raise
  - store and easy to feed
  - edible for humans
  - found in warm, damp and dark places in nature and man-made environments
  - highly nutritious
  - important because they teach the fledgling to catch live food
  - larvas
  - light brown and darken as they get older
  - little worms that provide hens with lots of protein and other nutrients
  - nutritionally deficit
* are popular as fish bait and as food for many types of small pets
  - reptile food and bird treats
  - with several species
  - scavengers and are most commonly found in damp, spoiled grain and grain products
  - similar to ground beetles but the headis somewhat scoop shaped
* are the brown worm-like larvae of darkling beetles
  - favourite food of many garden bird species
* are the larvae of a beetle
  - the Darkling beetle
  - to stay home
  - useful for their high protein content
* can be a food source for birds, lizards and other insects
  - easily crawl out of a standard wooden feeder
  - get into and ruin stored flour, pet food, mill feed, cereal and other dry goods
  - thrive in captivity, and can be purchased at pet shops
* come packed in wheat bran, which serves both as bed and breakfast.
* go through changes as they grow
  - substrate
  - very simple tastes in food
* includes brains
  - cell membranes
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - skulls
  - vacuoles
* live all over the world
* navigate their surroundings using a sense of touch and marginally developed eyesight.
* readily take apple peelings.
* show metamorphosis.
* start out as eggs laid in the soil by adult darkling beetles.
* then enter the pupa stage.

### animal | larva | mealworm:

Large mealworm
* are the same as our regular mealworms, just bigger.
* eat small mealworms, and beetles eat everything from egg through to pupa.

Mosquito larvae
* All mosquito larvae require water, even in winter.
* Most mosquito larvae have heads.
* Some mosquito larvae become adult mosquitoes
  - is found primarily in small ponds where vegetated growth accommodates breeding
  - live in water
  - respond to emergence
  - specialize in an existence in the water of tree holes

Moth larvae
* Some moth larvae are known to consume cotton, tomatoes and corn.
* Some moth larvae have many natural predators

Mutant larvae
* have uncoordinated locomotion.
* lack imaginal discs and gonads.