Sentence examples for larvae from inspiring English sources

The grain of sand myth is so entrenched that the V&A has included a video showing precisely how pearls are formed – how tiny tapeworm larvae that live in the digestive systems of animals such as sharks and stingrays are excreted and then, very rarely, manage to get into water-filtering shellfish.

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He feeds his vegetables with compost from his kitchen, his catfish on worms and larvae, his rabbits on leaves and herbs.

"The cicada are difficult to deal with because we can't find a way to kill the larvae in the ground and we can't use pesticides because a lot of bee-keepers bring their hives near our fields during flowering," said Eric Chaisse of the Provence regional centre for experimentation on plants used in perfumes, aromas and medicines.

The larvae, or nymphs, have feathery gills – located in the anus – that are especially vulnerable to toxins.

Hundreds of thousands of cicada larvae will not only have devastated the plants' roots, but the adult insects will also transmit a fatal micro-bacterium that will make the plants slowly wither and die.

"The pearls are formed around the larvae from a tapeworm coming from the excrement of other animals," said the show's co-curator, Hubert Bari.

According to a report published on January 16th by the Carter Centre, an American charity, only 148 people now harbour Guinea worm, which causes it.Guinea worms are nematodes that grow under the skins of their human hosts, to a length (if female) of half a metre or more, before emerging over the course of several days in a filament from which pieces break off and shed larvae.

These larvae, if they reach water, are then consumed by tiny crustaceans called copepods.

They also recorded where larvae were spotted (usually in traps), and reported the locations of known dengue patients.The resulting data were then analysed to create a visualisation showing where and when dengue was infecting people.

It was then possible to predict where dengue-infected mosquitoes would buzz up next, so that fogging and larvae-hunts could be targeted appropriately.