So here we are on the creepy crawly page, or least one of them,doesn't it want to make you scratch and itch and yuuuukkk.!! You can either click on the links above or read a bit about insect biology first...the choice is yours. Don't worry the insect biology we cover is only basic, so have a good look at the picture below which has the most relevant labels that the average person needs to know..

In the case of the cockroach, the pro thorax, which is directly behind the head, is sort of extended and flattened forward and thus covers the head like a cap, this is know as the pronotum. Also makes for abetter crunchchchch.. There is also a term called metamorphosis, this is what will happen to me when I win the lottery, seriously, this is how an insect develops.

There are three types:-
Complete (holometabolous) Metamorphosis, this has the four stages of egg, larva, pupa and the adult.
Incomplete (hemimetabolous)Metamorphosis, this has three stages, egg, nymph (this casts it's skin several times and changes occur) and adult. Ametabolous Metamorphosis, hardly any change except for size between the nymph and the adult.

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