Nigel Cattlin / Immature caterpillar of a codling moth (Cydia pomonell) eating its way through a gallery in a ripening apple fruit, Berkshire, July

Nigel Cattlin / Harlequin ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) larvae still with a raft of empty egg cases, June Berkshire, England, UK.

Nigel Cattlin / Large rose sawfly (Arge pagana) larvae feeding on ornamental rose leaves in summer, Berkshire, September

Nigel Cattlin / Rice leaf folder moth (Cnaphalocrocis medinalis) caterpillar of pest species in folded Rice (Oryza sativa) leaf , Luzon, Philippines

Shane Gross / Larval flounder (possibly Laeops Kitahara) in the open ocean at night off Anilao, Philippines.

Shane Gross / Larval Wonderpus octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus) drifting in the open ocean at night off Anilao, Philippines.

Shane Gross / Wonderpus octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus) in its juvenile or larval stage. At this stage it is transparent and drifts in the open ocean as plankton. Anilao, Philippines.

Edwin Giesbers / Sword-grass moth (Xylena exsoleta) caterpillar on Field gladiolus (Gladiolus italicus). Cyprus. April.

Ross Hoddinott / Buff tip moth (Phalera bucephala) caterpillars feeding on leaf, Meeth Quarry, Devon, UK. July

Juergen Freund / Timelapse of a Cairns birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion) butterfly caterpillar metamorphosing into a chrysalis, Queensland, Australia, April.

Juergen Freund / Timelapse of a Cairns birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion) butterfly caterpillar emerging from egg on an Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia) leaf and feeding, Queensland, Australia, April.

Thomas Marent / Tigerwing butterfly (Mechanitis sp.), two chrysalis, Ithomiini, Santa Maria, Boyacá, Colombia