Sentence examples for instars from inspiring English sources

Metamorphosis in the lice is simple, the nymphs molting three times, each of the three stages between molts (instars) becoming larger and more like the adult.

Along the second line of evolution of flies, Brachycera have from five to eight instars while the maggots of the most advanced flies (Cyclorrhapha) have only three.

Muscidae, for example, are arranged in three groups according to whether they are trimorphic (i.e., have three free larval instars), dimorphic (i.e., pass the first instar in the egg, have two free larval instars), or monomorphic (i.e., pass the first two instars in the egg, have one free larval instar).

The nymphal stages, or instars, between egg and adult usually number five in leafhoppers and related species.

The number of larval stages, or instars, is six or seven in black flies (Simuliidae) and four in most other Nematocera.

During these three instars, internal wing development occurs.

The performance marked the founding of INSTAR.

In practically all matters of reform the bishops received authority ad instar legati S. Sedis ("like delegates of the Holy See").

The last preadult instar has two external wings and is called the pupa.

Wings, if present, develop when the fifth instar molts and the adult emerges.

Monomorphic larvae are always predatory; trimorphic and dimorphic larvae feed first on decaying matter (are saprophagous), but they may or may not be predatory in their final instar.