Sentence examples for larva from inspiring English sources

As a colonisation strategy, dispersal by ocean current would be unreliable with vent systems so scarce, most of the larva swept out to sea would presumably perish but plenty of plants on land adopt a similar approach using the wind.The research offers more than just an insight into the life cycle of subsea gribblies.

So whose side is the designer on?The ichneumon wasp paralyses its prey without killing it and lays its larva inside this convenient source of fresh meat, to eat it slowly alive.

But instead of waiting to be fed, a larva devours the second egg that her mother laid.

When the larva grows to around 300 microns (roughly one-third of a millimetre), it extends its foot and seeks a suitable surface on which to set.

This is consistent with larva and effluent from the vents being swept away into the open ocean.

Once the pair of gametes connect, they become a larva that drifts and swims in the tidal current, propelling itself by means of a little organ ringed with cilia called a velium.

The chief rebel is a whining ant voiced by Woody Allen, who is on the couch at the beginning telling his shrink how he lost his father when he was "just a larva".What sank Fox's "Titan AE" (AE for "After Earth") was a loss of nerve.

The larva is a free-living embryo.

The larva differs greatly from the adult.

Upon hatching, the larva eats the still living host.

A free-swimming tunicate larva metamorphoses into an attached, sessile adult with an atrium that surrounds the gills.