Imago

High school (ages 12+)
Animals & Nature

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/imago

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is an imago?The imago is the final, adult stage of a bug that can fly and reproduce. It is the fully grown insect after it has gone through larval and pupal stages.
2. How does a bug change from a pupa into an imago?When the pupa opens, the insect is called eclosion. Inside the pupa, old tissues break down and new adult parts like wings and eyes grow from special cells.

Imago: The adult, winged, sexually mature stage of an insect, representing the culmination of complete metamorphosis.
Holometabolism: Complete metamorphosis, a developmental process involving distinct egg, larval, pupal, and adult (imago) stages.
Eclosion: The act of an insect emerging from its pupal case or eggshell as an adult.
Histogenesis: The formation of new tissues and organs from undifferentiated cells during insect development.