The way your body works now is not the way it has always worked. Think about it—today, your voice might be a little deeper, you might be a little taller, and you might even think differently than you did just a few years ago. This process of how an organism changes through time is called development.
By Karla Moeller
Illustrated by Sabine Deviche
What’s a Manduca?
The grass scratches your feet and the sun warms your back as you walk through the park. A ladybug lands on your arm. You raise your hand, tell it to "fly away home," and watch as it opens its wings and disappears into the sky. Insects are everywhere. While we notice some, like ladybugs, thousands of others walk or fly around unnoticed.
At first a leafcutter trail might look like a long line of leaves moving around. Image by Eli Duke.
Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, and includes common insects such as sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. This group of insects is named Hymenoptera because of their heavy wings. They range in size from very small to large and usually have two pairs of wings.
By Karla Moeller
Illustrated by Sabine Deviche
What’s a Manduca?
“Giant baby is bigger than its parents!” may make a great cover story for a magazine that publishes fake news, but in the world of moths and butterflies, it isn’t unusual for the juvenile caterpillar to weigh more than the adult moth or butterfly.
A digging female digger bee.
