Larva [noun]

Meanwhile, skinks — which made up 28 percent of the host animals captured — had 92 percent of the larvae and 98 percent of the nymphs.

All larvae have mouthparts, though some can be very simple in structure, and are adapted for chewing or sucking at foods that range from plants to flesh.

If so, any impacts might have had to wait until those larvae grew into adults.

The entire larva is black and the segments of the body possess numerous tubercles bearing setae.

As soon as it hatches the larva attacks the cricket in the belly at the chosen spot where the egg has been layed.

The larva of the hemerolicus feeds also on the aphides, and deposits its eggs on the leaves of such plants as are beset with them.

What a shelter for the larva of this Pompilus: the warm retreat and downy hammock of the Segestria!

No doubt the food for her family, the larva of which I possess the empty skin, now an unrecognizable shred.

I therefore restore matters as they were, with the Cetonia-larva belly uppermost and the young Scolia on top.

Every age is represented, from the new born grub to the podgy larva on the point of building its shell.