larva

The tadpole is the larva of the frog.

the free-swimming larva of the oyster.

The larva hatches out and lives in the soil.

A larva metamorphose into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.

wormlike larva of various elaterid_beetles;

lecitrophic Said of larva that develop from a relatively large yolky egg.

lecithotrophic larva A planktonic-dispersing larva that lives off yolk supplied via the egg, as in most bony fish.

The larva had the habit of multitudinous pupating on the reverse of the leaf.

larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains.

larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon.

The flower-shaped larva of a scyphomedusa jelly drifts in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Although early instar larvae were present in the host larval hemocoel, only one parasitoid survived to come out of host larva for pupation, killing the larva in the process.

The preys spectrum had certain selectivity,appulsive on the Lepidoptera especially the large-scale larva, appulsive on differentstand also.

Even at less than 10mm, this “small” ground beetle larva is a huge and powerful predator to the tiny springtail in its jaws.

The firefly is a holometabolic insect, passing through the stages of being an egg, being a larva, molting, and pupation.

vexillifer larva An elongate, planktonic, pre-adult stage of most, perhaps all, Carapidae characterized by a long, filamentous, usually ornamented dorsal appendage, the vexillum.

Abstract The climate of southern area is muggy and wet.It is apt to multiply chironomid larva, which is the polluted insect in the system of supplying water of the city.

The ichneumon wasp paralyses its prey without killing it and lays its larva inside this convenient source of fresh meat, to eat it slowly alive.

1. The larva of a pyralid moth (Diaphania nitidalis) of the southern Atlantic and Gulf states of the United States, that feeds destructively on cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and other gourds.