Abstract
Parental care is well known in certain insects with complete metamorphosis, especially the Hymenoptera, but it is not common in insects with incomplete metamorphosis, except in the Isoptera. The Dermaptera, Embiidina and a European mole cricket care for their young and are said to be incipiently social or subsocial. Kirkaldy (1903) summarizes the subject of parental care in non-social insects especially the Rhynchota. In the lace bugs (Tingitidae) groups of nymphs are frequently found with females on the under surfaces of their respective hosts, but associations of this sort are not cases of parental care; the nymphs and the adults are together only because the females continue to lay eggs over a comparatively long period.
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