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One example is the importance of pollinators. It is estimated that only about 3% of insects are pests. Metamorphosis refers to the insect’s life cycle, and how it changes and grows into an adult.

In time, these frogs will be able to lay their own frog spawn and their life cycle will begin again. But frogs aren't the only animals that go through metamorphosis. Butterflies also go through a ...

The following year Merian published her first book on the metamorphosis of European butterflies. Her first 'caterpillar book' (as she called them) contained 50 copper plate engravings showing the full ...