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Larvae13
  • In some organisms like polychaetes and barnacles, adults are immobile but their larvae are mobile, and use their mobile larval form to distribute themselves. (wikipedia.org)
  • Found in Cyclorrhapha Protopod larvae - larva have many different forms and often unlike a normal insect form. (wikipedia.org)
  • When prey, such as ants or other small insects, fall into the pit, the antlion larvae quickly capture them with their sickle-shaped jaws and devour them. (whatsthatbug.com)
  • We tested the hypothesis that, in oligophagous insects, larvae reared on a suboptimal host will eclose to adults with greater flight tendency but poorer reproductive output than adults that develop on optimal hosts. (huji.ac.il)
  • Larval monitoring should begin about two weeks after peak trap catches, and continue until the number of larvae exceed economic thresholds and the crop is sprayed, or until the crop is swathed. (saskatchewan.ca)
  • In insect parasitoids, there might either be contest (solitary parasitoids) or scramble competition (gregarious parasitoids) between larvae within a host. (knaw.nl)
  • The larvae of certain insect groups have specific names: those of certain Diptera are called maggots. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • The differences between larvae and adults are sometimes so pronounced that it can be difficult for someone who is unfamiliar with insects to know what a larva will become once it reaches adulthood. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • After mating, the female insect usually deposits her eggs in a place where the larvae can find food easily. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • In other species, such as social insects, females take care of eggs, clean them, protect them and feed young larvae in the nest for a certain period of time. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • The larvae of insects that undergo complete metamorphosis are often worm-shaped with or without legs. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region, part one: larval bionomics of of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae. (andrewisles.com)
  • Larvae shed their skin by molting, four times during their larval stage, before becoming pupae. (cdc.gov)
Mosquitoes6
  • Some insects, such as certain species of mosquitoes, can lay eggs several times over the course of a few weeks. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • Insect growth regulators such as methroprene are specific to mosquitoes and can be applied in the same way as chemical insecticides. (cdc.gov)
  • Romanomermis culicivorax ), parasitize and kill larval mosquitoes but they are not efficient for mosquito control and are not widely used. (cdc.gov)
  • At one time, it was used to kill mosquitoes in the immature, larval stage of development, a use that involved application of formulated product directly to bodies of water, but hlorpyrifos is no longer registered for this purpose (EPA 1986). (cdc.gov)
  • There is no convincing evidence that Lyme disease can be transmitted by insects such as mosquitoes, flies, or fleas. (cdc.gov)
  • Overview of Arbovirus, Arenavirus, and Filovirus Infections Arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus) is defined as any virus that is transmitted to humans and/or other vertebrates by certain species of blood-feeding arthropods, mostly insects (flies and mosquitoes). (msdmanuals.com)
Stages8
  • Most of their lives are spent in larval stages, being voracious predators of ants and other small insects 3 . (whatsthatbug.com)
  • The life cycle of holometabolous insects (those which undergo complete metamorphosis) includes four distinct stages: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis) and adult. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • Insect parasitic nematodes are beneficial nematodes that attack the larval stages of. (groworganic.com)
  • Flies exhibit complete metamorphosis with egg, larval, pupal and adult stages. (msu.edu)
  • Wood boring insects on willow trees feed in both their larval and adult stages. (gardenguides.com)
  • Interventions targeting the larval stages of the mosquito have been used effectively for decades, but their effectiveness varies widely from species to species. (cdc.gov)
  • Surprisingly, qPCR also showed that the receptor is 30x more expressed in the first larval stages than in adult animals. (lu.se)
  • In their larval and nymphal stages, they are no bigger than a pinhead. (cdc.gov)
Arthropods2
Complete metamorphosis4
Jumping insects th1
Pests3
  • Found throughout the Prairie provinces and in parts of British Columbia, bertha armyworms are one of the most significant insect pests of canola in Canada and can be important pests of flax and quinoa. (saskatchewan.ca)
  • Dealing with insect pests in the home becomes more difficult if you can't identify the creatures. (ehow.com)
  • Cottonwood borers (Plectrodera scalator) are widespread wood boring insect pests on willow trees, according to Kansas State Research and Extension. (gardenguides.com)
Order of insects5
Populations3
  • Antlions are beneficial predators that help control populations of ants and other small insects. (whatsthatbug.com)
  • Accordingly, we studied the effects of larval food on the potato tuberworm, Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), an oligophagous herbivore in which some populations seem to have recently increased their host range to include tomato. (huji.ac.il)
  • I am particularly interested in the evolution of life histories and mimicry in insects, coevolution between plants and insects (especially in pollination), and in the importance of habitat fragmentation to populations and conservation. (nottingham.ac.uk)
Parasitic2
  • The inotocin/receptor couple can also be found in the recently sequenced genome from the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis but not in any other holometabolous insect with a completely sequenced genome (12 Drosophila species, the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae, the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, the silk worm Bombyx mori, and the honey bee Apis mellifera), suggesting that this neuropeptide system is confined to basal holometabolous insects. (lu.se)
  • Infection is acquired when people come into contact with fresh water infested with the larval forms (cercariae) of parasitic blood flukes, known as schistosomes. (who.int)
Beneficial Insects1
Beetles3
Stage15
  • A secondary challenge in disentangling the role of pesticides in butterfly population ecology is that chemicals can act on either the larval or adult stage. (nature.com)
  • Animals in the larval stage will consume food to fuel their transition into the adult form. (wikipedia.org)
  • This could be the case, but often the larval stage has evolved secondarily, as in insects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The larval stage is primarily focused on feeding. (whatsthatbug.com)
  • The larval stage is where most people recognize antlions, known as "doodlebugs. (whatsthatbug.com)
  • With only a one-time application, the probiotics also boosted larval growth, metamorphosis and settlement, meaning that in addition to more oysters surviving past the larval stage, they also fared better at transitioning to juveniles and anchoring to shells and other surfaces. (thefishsite.com)
  • It lives in pine trees during the larval stage. (britannica.com)
  • As with insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis, larval life is mainly a stage of growth. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • During this stage, major internal transformations take place so that the insect can become an adult. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • At the pupal stage, the insect does not eat and is usually almost or completely immobile. (espacepourlavie.ca)
  • In its larval stage, the insect feeds inside tree trunks and branches during the colder months. (michigan.gov)
  • Caterpillars are insects in their larval stage. (amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com)
  • In its larval stage, a caterpillar is perhaps the most devastating creature in the butterfly and moth family. (amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com)
  • Having located the gene behind the female colour variation, the researchers can now go further and identify different genotypes in the males, and in the aquatic larval stage of these insects. (lu.se)
  • Cysticercosis: Myositis also can occur in cysticercosis, which represents an infection by the larval stage of the intestinal tapeworm Taenia solium. (medscape.com)
Butterflies1
Immature2
  • Overall, we found no impact of any pesticide on immature development time and relatively weak effects on larval herbivory or survival to adulthood. (nature.com)
  • The appearance of an immature, or larval, insect is quite different from its adult form. (ehow.com)
Insecticides1
  • For these species, chemical insecticides can be applied directly to the larval habitats. (cdc.gov)
Larva1
Flies2
  • Plus, SciFri producers took a field trip to Miami University's cryobiology lab to learn more about how insects, such as flesh flies of Ohio, handle the cold. (sciencefriday.com)
  • Flies are distinguished from other insects by having only one pair of wings. (msu.edu)
Amphibians2
  • Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. (wikipedia.org)
  • They share what we're learning about how insects and amphibians survive harsh temperatures, and what frostbite and dehydration have in common. (sciencefriday.com)
Soft-bodied2
Bees1
  • Of all the insect pollinators, bees are the only ones that collect pollen for eating. (missouri.edu)
Crickets2
  • a name for various herbivorous jumping insects of the order Orthoptera, related to locusts and crickets, that chirp by rubbing their wing-covers. (absp.org.uk)
  • In a recent appraisal of Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex Haldeman) , Raffelson (1989) reminds us that these insects are a subject of great concern and dislike among Western ranchers and farmers. (usu.edu)
Habitats1
  • The larval habitats may be destroyed by filling depressions that collect water, by draining swamps or by ditching marshy areas to remove standing water. (cdc.gov)
Mosquito1
  • Therefore, larval mosquito control for the prevention of malaria in Africa has not been attempted on a large scale. (cdc.gov)
Group of insects2
  • Bertha armyworms (Figure 1) ( Mamestra configurata ) are native to North America and belong to a group of insects referred to as "climbing cutworms. (saskatchewan.ca)
  • Ants are another group of insects that can be wingless. (earthlife.net)
Study of insects3
  • Preliminary study of insects in five forest of Colombia. (uky.edu)
  • Entomology is the study of insects, which are organisms that have an exoskeleton, six legs, three body segments, one pair of antenna, and one pair of compound eyes. (medscape.com)
  • The field of forensic entomology is broadly defined as the application of the scientific study of insects and their arthropod relatives to legal matters. (medscape.com)
Species of insects1
Interactions1
  • We investigate the direct effects of polyploidization on phenotypic traits of importance for plant-insect interactions (e.g. floral scent and morphology), using different ploidy-types of the plant Lithophragma bolanderi as model. (lu.se)
Caterpillars1
  • Considering their specific anatomy, it is easy to tell the difference between caterpillars and their larval counterparts from other species. (amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com)
Lepidoptera1
  • 2001. Metodos para el monitoreo de mariposas y hormigas (Lepidoptera:Rhopalocera e Hymenoptera: Formicidae) en estudios ecologicos a largo plazo. (uky.edu)
Holometabolous1
  • Grbić, Miodrag (1999), "Cell Lineages in Larval Development and Evolution of Holometabolous Insects", The Origin and Evolution of Larval Forms, Elsevier, pp. 275-300, doi:10.1016/b978-012730935-4/50010-9, ISBN 978-0-12-730935-4 Raff, Rudolf A (2008-01-11). (wikipedia.org)
Predators1
  • Flight is also a great way to evade predators, especially when an insect has membranous wings just like dragonfly wings. (earthlife.net)
Adults3
  • Variations in larval food plants and in the tendency of adults to fly correspond with female wing loading, energy reserves (lipid content), and reproductive output. (huji.ac.il)
  • Some insects, typically those without complete evolution, are born with wings but shed them as they develop into adults. (earthlife.net)
  • Adults: Spray insect repellent onto your hands and then apply to child's face. (cdc.gov)
Herbivorous insects1
  • To confirm this hypothesis, we examined (1) whether stinging hairs affected oviposition and feeding preferences of herbivorous insects and (2) the degree to which they deterred deer via laboratory and field experiments with hairy nettles from Nara Park and with almost-hairless nettles from another area. (researchgate.net)
Biology1
  • Due to the relatively recent widespread acceptance of entomology within the forensic sciences, many police agencies, medical examiners, coroners, and federal agencies throughout the United States request assistance from entomologists knowledgeable in the behavior and biology of carrion insects to help answer critical questions pertaining to human death investigations. (medscape.com)
Ants4
Bites2
  • Other forensic uses of entomology have been to identify deaths resulting from anaphylactic shock due to insect bites or stings, to resolve traffic accidents resulting from panic due to stinging insects in an automobile, and to be used in consultation in criminal cases involving the misuse of insects that are induced to bite or feed upon the victim. (medscape.com)
  • Scrub typhus is spread to people through bites of infected chiggers (larval mites). (cdc.gov)
Hosts2
  • The effect of competition between ovipositing females on their clutch size decisions is studied in animals that lay their eggs in discrete units of larval food (hosts). (knaw.nl)
  • Many tachinids will attack insect hosts in 2 or more different orders. (cirrusimage.com)
Caterpillar1
Wildlife1
  • Humans and wildlife depend on insect pollinators for the production of fiber, fruits and vegetables. (missouri.edu)
Wingless1
Humans3
  • It interferes with the activity of acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that is essential for the proper working of the nervous systems of both humans and insects. (cdc.gov)
  • T cruzi occurs in 2 forms in humans, the intracellular amastigote and the trypomastigote form in blood, which is ingested by the insects (see image below). (medscape.com)
  • These parasites are transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female phlebotomine sandfly, a tiny - 2-3 mm long - insect vector. (who.int)
Butterfly3
  • Larval plant for Henry's Elfin butterfly. (wildflower.org)
  • A specialist butterfly, Indian red admiral, showed no oviposition or larval feeding preferences for either hairy or hairless nettles. (researchgate.net)
  • Larval host plant for Florida white ( Appias drusilla ) butterfly. (fnps.org)
Ticks1
  • Ticks must be removed properly with tweezers to minimize the chances of infection from these insects. (rxlist.com)
Typically1
  • Typically, the winged and free-living male insect starts seeking out a female as soon as he emerges from his pupa and leaves his host. (answersingenesis.org)
Grasshoppers2
  • Grasshoppers and their allies include many of the largest and most flamboyant insects, favored by entomologists and insect lovers around the world. (angelfire.com)
  • Area-wide treatments are generally more effective than spot treatments because grasshoppers are highly mobile insects. (usu.edu)
Wings7
APHIDS1
Cockroach1
  • At 349 pages, this is the definitive cockroach manual for anyone branching out into these fascinating insects. (angelfire.com)
Pollination1
Survival1
  • Different two- and three-strain combinations increased larval survival rates by up to 86 percent. (thefishsite.com)
Locust1
  • Here, we report that the recently sequenced genome from the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum contains a gene coding for an oxytocin/vasopressin-like peptide, identical to the locust peptide, which we named inotocin (for insect oxytocin/vasopressin-like peptide) and a gene coding for an inotocin G protein-coupled. (lu.se)
Entomologists1
  • Within the forensic sciences, forensic entomologists can help to establish a portion of the postmortem interval (PMI) (which is known as the period of insect activity, or time since colonization), assist in establishing the geographic location of death in cases of body transport, help associate the victim and suspect to each other and to the scene, and help the pathologist identify sites of trauma on the corpse. (medscape.com)
Widespread1