With prolegs on the abdomen mealworms or caterpillars
Without prolegs
With powerful, functional legs
Without legs, or with small rudimentary legs
With dense hairs. The rear end with a tuft of hairs dermestid larvae
With scattered hairs, or naked certain beetle larvae
The larva is curled
The larva is not curled
With small legs certain beetle larvae (including powder posttles, furniture beetles and spider beetles),
Legs completely lacking beetle larvae (weevils and bark beetles)
Found in timber, sometimes under bark Found in other places
Broad in front cerambycid larvae
Not broad in front, with spine at rear end wood-boring wasp larvae
Small (less that 5 mm long), with hairs flea larvae
Normally more than 5 mm long, without hairs, but very variable in appearance fly larvae