Adults mate and lay eggs. An insect with incomplete metamorphosis has 3 life stages: egg, nymphs, and adult (no pupa). Eggs hatch to a small nymph, which resembles (not perfectly) what the adult will ...

In my last column I wrote about the cicada killer wasp. An extraordinary large wasp that kills cicadas to feed the wasp’s offspring. I think it sparked some interest in insects in general ...