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Index of Subjects On 10/11/10 18:17 , uhoeger@dal.ca wrote: > Not sure what you mean. > > Do you look for the times of embryonic development in the egg before larval > stages hatch, or the time it takes from egg to the final adult stage? > > Tricky answer, since all insects have multiple larval or nymph stages before > reaching adult stage, and depending on the kind of their post-embryonic > development those immature stages resemble the adult stage a lot or not at > all. It gets even more complicated since all this is highly temperature > dependant, and periods of resting development are not uncommon. > Furthermore abundance or lack of food during larval stages can also speed > things up, or slow them down. Thanks for asking for clarification. I meant until the first stage that eats. Gerald
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