Document Type
Book
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Developmental Systems: Insects
Volume
1
Publisher
Academic Press
Publication Date
1-1-1972
First Page
165
Last Page
242
Abstract
The eggs of hemimetabolous insects, (cf Chapter 3), pose a number of technical problems for the descriptive embryologist. Holometabolous insects are in many ways more suitable for embryological investigation. The Holometabola are generally more prolific and more amenable to laboratory culture than the Hemimetabola. The eggs of most holometabolans develop relatively rapidly (Table I) and have smaller dimensions (Table II), less yolk and less formidable external membranes than their hemimetabolous counterparts. Consequently, good histological preparations of all stages can usually be obtained with relative ease. In spite of these advantages, however, the Holometabola were still a frustrating challenge to the insect embryologists of the nineteenth century, who found difficulty, not only with histological manipulations of their specimens, but also because the embryos of many Holometabola manifest extremes of specialization which the early workers were unable to interpret.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, D. T., "4. The Development of Holometabolous Insects" (1972). A. Paper 194.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_a/194