Summary
The rice weevil spends almost its whole young life hidden inside a single grain of rice. Deep Look reveals how a mother weevil tucks an egg into a grain, where the larva eats, grows and finally chews its way out as an adult.
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Discussion questions
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A female rice weevil drills a hole in a grain and lays one egg inside. The larva eats the grain from the inside as it grows, then transforms and emerges as an adult -- a whole life cycle inside one seed.
- Where does a young rice weevil grow up?
- What does the larva eat while it grows?
- What are the life-cycle stages before it becomes an adult?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: weevil, larva, life cycle, grain.
Try it: Draw a rice grain with a weevil growing inside, then an adult coming out. Write the stages of its life cycle.