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When they’re growing, in the nymphal stage, grasshoppers can eat more than their body weight per day in wet vegetation.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2021

However, like training wheels, the gears only exist in the nymphal stage before the insect becomes an adult.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2013

The trout, which have been feeding on the nymphal forms of the insects lower in the water column, shift their focus to the top, where the bugs float at the whim of the current.

From New York Times • May 11, 2013

So if you're looking closely enough, you can even see bugs in the nymphal first instar stage.

From Scientific American • Jan. 23, 2012

Be this as it may, I found at the end of August one of these pseudochrysalids which had already attained the nymphal stage.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander