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well as several pairs of fleshy legs (towle ). in the immobile pupal stage, an insect may be encased in a protective coating such as a cocoon (rare in butterflies, but common in moths ). in the pupal stage, the insect will excrete digestive juices to destroy much of the larva's body, leaving a few cells
intact, while groups of cells, called imaginal disks, develop into the tissues of the adult, using the nutrients from the broken down larva. this process of cell death is called histolysis, and cell regrowth histogenesis. examples of holometabolic insects include beetles , flies , bees , wasps , ants...
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