Accumulated Degree Hour (ADH)
is the number of hours at an adjusted average temperature it takes for an insect species to develop to a given stage.
Complete metamorphosis
is the body development in four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Crop
is a digestive organ used for storage of food.
Entomology
is the study of insects and related arthropods.
Forensic Entomology
is the application of entomology to civil and criminal legal cases.
Grub
is a wormlike beetle larva.
Insect succession
is a predictable sequence of changing species that inhabit a decomposing body.
Instar
is each of the three different larval stages of flies in species that undergo complete metamorphosis.
Larva
is a wormlike stage of insect development after egg.
Maggot
is a wormlike fly larva.
Oviposition
is the depositing, or laying, of eggs.
Pupa
is a nonfeeding stage of development between larva and adult.
Spiracles
are respiratory organs of insects that are used by researchers to identify a larval stage as first, second, or third instar.