Silverfish

Kenya 2011
Silverfish
Lepisma saccharina
(Lepismatidae)


Thysanura are no metamorphoses that are primitive for an insect and it just repeat ecdysis and as for the larva which hatched from an egg, it is with an imago without passing through the stages such as pupas in an imago and about the same form. The body is slightly flat and does slim teardrop form. A long feeler grows to a head and is connected of the abdomen smoothly from the chest. Each metamere has one pair of stomach hair in the abdomen. Life comparative for vigor, an insect is long for 7-8 years. It is famous to eat paper and dried foods indoors, but there is the entering thing in a thing and the formicary which inhabit the bark bottoms in the outdoors.

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