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• The larvae absorb toxins from their food plant, milkweed.
• The name krill derives from ‘kril’, an Old Norwegian word once applied to tiny creepy-crawly things, vermin, and larval fish.
• … Others can only be identified with a microscope, such as the majority of protozoa [single-celled animals], certain blood filariae [small larvae of pathogen parasites in the blood vessels], and the trichinae. Modern Science in the Bible
• A pupa covered by the hardened 3rd larval skin is known as a coarctate pupa..
• According to health experts, when an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood.
• River smallmouths bite any number of baits but show the most enthusiasm for hellgrammites, the larvae of dobsonflies. Rivers of Bronze
• For reasons which we will not pause here to discuss, we have always regarded the eruciform type of larva as the highest. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
• So while a good frost will kill off countless millions of strongyle eggs in a pasture, it is providing the infective third-stage larvae with that most valuable of commodities - time Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
• In hemichordates, the three adult coelomic cavities are derived from coelomic sacs that form around the gut of the larva (an unpaired protocoel and two pairs of sacs for the mesocoel and metacoel).
• VIP3 shows activity against many lepidopteran insect larvae.