• noun An insect the larva of which bores in the stems of plants. (wordnik.com)
  • [2] [3] In many non-technical texts, the term is used for insect larvae in general. (wikipedia.org)
  • one of numerous species of insect larvæ: which live in the interior of fruit. (wordnik.com)
  • They're considered the most ancient in the lineage of wasps and their larvae are actually very caterpillar-like in most cases, and they're feeding on foliage rather than on an insect host or a spider host or something like that, that many of the wasps we think of do. (awaytogarden.com)
  • In addition to highlighting that the astonishing plasticity of the microbiota composition of BSF larvae is associated with functional shifts in the insect microbiome , the present work sets the stage for exploiting BSF larvae as "bioincubators" to isolate microbial strains and enzymes for the development of innovative plastic biodegradation strategies . (bvsalud.org)
  • A homeowner inadvertently brings them into their home by purchasing a bag of birdseed that is infested, and within a few weeks, a home can become infested with moth larvae and adults. (definitions.net)
  • the larva of an Asian moth that spins pure and commercially valued silk to form its cocoon, or any of various other moth larvae that spin cocoons of similar material. (wordsmyth.net)
  • In many eusocial Hymenoptera species, the larvae are fed by female workers. (definitions.net)
  • the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which attacks cabbages. (freedictionary.org)
  • a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. (freedictionary.org)
  • Larvae of calliphorid flies of the species Lucilia sericata are widely used. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In response, some bee species return to the nest site to police fungal growth, walling off infected from non-infected larvae. (beeculture.com)
  • Other solitary bee species developed ways to combat fungal growth, including the application of plant materials and salivary secretions that protect developing larvae. (beeculture.com)
  • The high-definition picture of the BSF gut microbiome gave access for the first time to the genomes of culturable and unculturable microorganisms in the gut of insects reared on plastics and revealed that (i) plastics significantly shaped bacterial composition at species and strain level, and (ii) functions that trigger the degradation of the polymer chains, i.e. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is caused by drinking water containing water fleas ( Cyclops species) that have ingested Dracunculus larvae. (who.int)
  • After the eggs hatch, mayfly larvae eat vegetation growing on rocks and stems of large water plants. (critterzone.com)
  • Fish can have negative impacts on amphibian populations, either through predation of eggs and larvae or through competition for food. (conservationevidence.com)
  • If the eggs enter fresh water, they hatch into larvae that are ingested by snails. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Bogusch, Kratochvíl & Straka, 2006), do not steal food items from their hosts, but lay their eggs in nests of others bees, and their larvae are born before the larvae of the host. (bvsalud.org)
  • Both the traits and seed treatments will provide some protection vs small cutworm larvae. (udel.edu)
  • disabuse the reader's mind of the prevalent belief that the terms larva, pupa and imago are fixed and absolute. (e-freetranslation.com)
  • the word bot to mean a larva or maggot has been in use since the 1500s. (grammarist.com)
  • June beetles are considered pests in many areas as the larvae, known as white grubs, feed on the roots of grasses and other plants, causing significant damage. (definitions.net)
  • A muscle biopsy specimen from a patient showed nonencapsulated larvae with a cytochrome oxidase I gene sequence of Trichinella papuae . (cdc.gov)
  • A control was defined as a resident of village A who did not meet the case definition and who agreed to give an interview, allowed specimen collection, and had negative serologic results for Trichinella spp. (cdc.gov)
  • A disease caused by ingestion of Trichinella larvae. (cdc.gov)
  • plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. (definitions.net)
  • The pathogenesis of feline heartworm disease starts with the larvae, which penetrate into peripheral veins. (goodnewsforpets.com)
  • After the cysts are swallowed, the larvae leave the cyst, penetrate the wall of the intestine and enter the abdominal cavity. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Its larvae are usually produced in the branches and take one to two years to hatch. (travelchinaguide.com)
  • What is the definition of a collective noun? (scribbr.com)
  • A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The infection is diagnosed when doctors identify the worm larvae (microfilariae) in a sample of blood. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Lymphatic filariasis is transmitted when an infected mosquito bites a person and deposits larvae of the worm in the skin. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The adults produce millions of worm larvae (called microfilariae) that circulate in the bloodstream and lymphatic system. (msdmanuals.com)
  • If you removed all mosquito larvae in the Everglades, you'd probably have a huge impact. (definitions.net)
  • It is of nocturnal and burrowing habits, and feeds on decomposed animal substances, larvae and termites. (yourdictionary.com)
  • So, in order to allow for use of these substances, new AAFCO definitions for each ingredient must be established. (petfoodindustry.com)
  • In this regard, hydrodynamic cues associated with spatiotemporally persistent flow features are likely fundamental drivers of decapod crab larvae behavior and may act as another mechanism of larval patchiness by directly impacting finescale population distributions and resultant dispersal trajectories. (frontiersin.org)
  • First off, honey bee larvae consume very little if any pollen, so by definition, cannot eat the microbial meat growing on pollen. (beeculture.com)
  • BSF larvae were reared on two widely used plastic polymers and shotgun metagenomics was exploited to evaluate if and how plastic -containing diets affect composition and functions of the gut microbial community . (bvsalud.org)
  • In some organisms like polychaetes and barnacles, adults are immobile but their larvae are mobile, and use their mobile larval form to distribute themselves.Some larvae are dependent on adults to feed them. (definitions.net)
  • People are infected when they swallow cysts containing fluke larvae in raw, undercooked, or pickled freshwater crabs or crayfish. (msdmanuals.com)
  • it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachycera flies, such as houseflies , cheese flies , and blowflies , [1] rather than larvae of the Nematocera , such as mosquitoes and crane flies . (wikipedia.org)
  • [5] Additionally, in Flies: The Natural History and Diversity of Diptera , the author claims maggots "are larvae of higher Brachycera ( Cyclorrhapha ). (wikipedia.org)
  • Synonyms are words that have the same or almost the same meaning and the definition is the detailed explanation of the word. (hamariweb.com)
  • This page will help you out finding the Definition & Synonyms of hundreds of words mentioned on this page. (hamariweb.com)
  • Larvae are frequently adapted to different environments than adults. (definitions.net)
  • Napoleon's famous military surgeon, Baron D. J. Larrey (1766-1842) noted larvae of the blue fly in the wounds of soldiers in Syria during the Egyptian expedition. (blogspot.com)
  • We found a 60-100% reduction in retinal responses in the larvae of cephalopods and crustaceans: the market squid ( Doryteuthis opalescens ), the two-spot octopus ( Octopus bimaculatus ), the tuna crab ( Pleuroncodes planipes ) and the graceful rock crab ( Metacarcinus gracilis ). (biologists.com)
  • For example, some larvae such as tadpoles live almost exclusively in aquatic environments, but can live outside water as adult frogs. (definitions.net)
  • By living in a distinct environment, larvae may be given shelter from predators and reduce competition for resources with the adult population. (definitions.net)
  • In Ropalidia marginata (a paper wasp) the males are also capable of feeding larvae but they are much less efficient, spending more time and getting less food to the larvae.The larvae of some organisms (for example, some newts) can become pubescent and do not develop further into the adult form. (definitions.net)
  • People are usually treated with the drug diethylcarbamazine, which kills the immature larvae in the blood and some of the adult worms. (msdmanuals.com)
  • This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word larvae . (definitions.net)
  • The definition of bot that most use today, meaning a robot or chatbot, came into use in the 2000s and comes from internet slang or teen slang. (grammarist.com)
  • In October 1990, in collaboration with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, CDC published Case Definitions for Public Health Surveillance (MMWR 1990;39{No. RR-13}), which, for the first time, provided uniform criteria for reporting cases. (cdc.gov)
  • However, before 1990, the usefulness of such data was limited by the lack of uniform case definitions for public health surveillance. (cdc.gov)
  • In October 1990, in collaboration with CSTE, CDC published Case Definitions for Public Health Surveillance (4), which, for the first time, provided uniform criteria for reporting cases to increase the specificity of reporting and improve the comparability of diseases reported from different geographic areas. (cdc.gov)
  • A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. (cdc.gov)
  • The CDC Surveillance Coordination Group has established a steering committee that is charged with the development of a broad range of case definitions for noninfectious conditions (e.g., environmental or occupational conditions, chronic diseases, adverse reproductive health events, and injuries). (cdc.gov)
  • The CDC/CSTE surveillance case definitions included in this report differ in their use of clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic criteria to define cases. (cdc.gov)
  • Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. (cdc.gov)
  • Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient's health needs. (cdc.gov)
  • Orientation-specific hydrodynamic sensitivity and behavioral response strategies in the presence of persistent hydrodynamic cues may enable larvae to effectively forage and sample to locate and exploit nearby resource patches, while also inducing dispersal trajectories toward favorable benthic settlement habitats through depth-regulation and effective STST. (frontiersin.org)
  • A parasitic helminthiasis infectious disease that involves zoonotic infection of humans by the larvae of Toxocara canis or Toxocara cati. (jax.org)
  • however, laboratory evidence may be one component of a clinical definition (e.g., toxic-shock syndrome). (cdc.gov)
  • Well-timed vertical migrations allow larvae to exploit vertical gradients of horizontal velocity, typical in nearshore and estuarine hydrodynamics ( Figure 1 ), in order to selectively induce horizontal transport and improve fitness through favorable habitat selection. (frontiersin.org)
  • Case definitions for some infectious conditions not designated as nationally notifiable are included in Part 2 of this report. (cdc.gov)
  • The most common is the toxic green larva of a white butterfly, the cabbage butterfly , ( Pieris rap[ae] ). (freedictionary.org)
  • Expressionanalysis indicated that Bmuccr was highly expressed in larva stage and was down-regulated in embryos stage and adultstage of silkworm. (researchgate.net)
  • Our cultural definition of wasps is what you just shared, which is the social wasps that we tend to associate with aggressiveness, because they're defending a nest full of their vulnerable siblings in an egg, larva or pupal stage that can't defend themselves. (awaytogarden.com)
  • However, deliberations of the Ingredient Definitions Committee also have significant impact on the pet food industry. (petfoodindustry.com)
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  • Every kind of insects in the gallery is well illustrated, with respect to reproductions, their habits, classifications and definitions. (travelchinaguide.com)
  • Therefore, this article begins with definitions of terms used to describe the most common dermatologic appearances. (medscape.com)
  • A revision date is listed for each case definition that has been revised. (cdc.gov)
  • The 1996 case definition appearing on this page was re-published in the 2009 CSTE position statement 09-ID-64. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, the 1996 and 2010 versions of the case definition are identical. (cdc.gov)
  • This alphabetized Fishing Glossary has over 240 terms different fishing terms along with their definitions. (kylekazak.com)
  • In 2019 Wolseley and Wirrpanda collaborated on a show at Australian Galleries where she explored extended ideas of maypal which definition includes some larvae which bore into wood. (yirrkala.com)
  • Some of the simplest animals, like the larvae of sponges and jellyfish , have light-sensitive cells that help them respond to their environment. (allaboutvision.com)
  • How is a car tyre "self diagnosing" (since I can't find your reference) and how does that even fit any definition of intentionality and/or qualia, which my article stated to be the basic requirements for consciousness? (scienceforums.net)
  • Earlier research on native bees detailed how mold growth could devour a large proportion of solitary larvae along with its pollen ball. (beeculture.com)
  • If we expect corn to emerge after 300 degree days, and corn is being planted into a cover crop within 1-2 weeks of termination, there is the possibility that large damaging larvae can be present. (udel.edu)
  • As the larvae develop, it is sometimes a race between microbe and larvae to consume the pollen and nectar provisions. (beeculture.com)
  • Inside the snail, the larvae develop into a form (called cercariae) that can swim. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Plastics shape the black soldier fly larvae gut microbiome and select for biodegrading functions. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, the only fruit source allowed today under the definition is apple, which in fact was already defined for use in animal feed many years ago (1929, to be exact). (petfoodindustry.com)
  • However, most importantly, the larvae constitute a source of enzymes to be evolved and valorized by pioneering synthetic biology approaches. (bvsalud.org)
  • The larvae of owlflies and antlions (here shortly embraced by the term "owllions") are ambush predators. (mdpi.com)
  • If you just have a liter (of water) down in the bottom of a boat and put it on a trailer and travel over land to a new river system, you could be injecting potentially hundreds or even thousands of microscopic larvae into a new water body. (definitions.net)
  • Larvae may be found under stones in running streams or swimming among water plants in calm water. (critterzone.com)