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Breeding & Nymph Care
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<blockquote data-quote="Jesse" data-source="post: 9035" data-attributes="member: 16"><p>After an insect "sheds" its egg capsule AKA hatches it is L1. Mantids do shed an additional membrane after escaping from the egg, so some entomologists consider this an additional molt and call them L2. L1 is short for larval stage 1, technically all immature insects are considered larvae, even those with incomplete metamorphosis. The pupal phase of insects with complete metamorphosis is not considered a larval stage...just to make that clear. If a newly hatched larva is a newly hatched larva, it has to be at least stage 1, otherwise it would be nothing. after a "stage 1" larva molts it is now in its second stage so it is "larval stage 2" Shortened to L2.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jesse, post: 9035, member: 16"] After an insect "sheds" its egg capsule AKA hatches it is L1. Mantids do shed an additional membrane after escaping from the egg, so some entomologists consider this an additional molt and call them L2. L1 is short for larval stage 1, technically all immature insects are considered larvae, even those with incomplete metamorphosis. The pupal phase of insects with complete metamorphosis is not considered a larval stage...just to make that clear. If a newly hatched larva is a newly hatched larva, it has to be at least stage 1, otherwise it would be nothing. after a "stage 1" larva molts it is now in its second stage so it is "larval stage 2" Shortened to L2. [/QUOTE]
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