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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0732.00026.] Recently there has been much interest in modeling population growth where the population disperses among patches in a patchy environment. A second group of papers have dealt with models of populations where the life history of the particular species involves two or more stages. In Q. Appl. Math. 49, No. 2, 351-371 (1991; Zbl 0732.92021), we have combined these two concepts and analyzed a model incorporating stage structure and dispersal. The idea was to consider a single-species population whose life history consists of two stages, immature and mature, and where populations in both stages could disperse among patches. In order to carry out our analysis we required that the dispersal be linear. In the present paper we wish to analyze such a model where there is little or no dispersal for the immature population, but a strong, nonlinear dispersal among patches for the mature population. We have in mind species such as Malacosoma claifornicum pluviale (Dyer), the western tend caterpillar, which has an immature stage as a caterpillar with almost no dispersal, and an adult stage as a fat brown moth with high dispersal rates which are weather dependent. Our main results give criteria for the global stability of a positive equilibrium.