Evidence from studies of 105 species of insects is presented which show that holometabolous insects grow almost twice as much in linear dimension at each molt as do hemimetabolous insects (median growth ratios of 1.52 and 1.27 respectively).
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Blaine J. Cole (1980) studied this question.
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