WHAT ARE THOSE CREEPY THINGS IN MS. SEITZ'S ROOM?

They are the life cycle of the darkling beetle. The yellow worm-like creature isn't a worm at all. It's a meal worm, the larvae or young of the beetle. If you look closely, you will see six insect legs. And that whitish, sleepy-looking thing is a grub or the pupa of the beetle. It will stay this way for about three weeks, before COMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS occurs, changing it into an adult beetle. (The next stage in the life cycle would then be the egg.)

WHAT OTHER CREATURES DO YOU KNOW THAT GO THROUGH COMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS? SHARE!

The meal worms and beetles are handy food for the classroom anoles.

The students like them too! (Not to eat, of course, to OBSERVE!)