Sentences with phrase «as larvae»

As the larvae develop into mature polyps, coral typically keep the symbiont types best suited to the local microclimate and expel the others.

As the larvae travel across the surface, they interact with the paint and ink, creating random and sinewy lines.

To reduce the chances of coming into contact with them, try to walk your dog early in the morning or late at night when it's cooler, as larvae are usually active during warmer, dry weather.

These serve a dual purpose; as larvae they are an attractive food for many animals, but removed and kept at room temperature in a pet's cage, they will pupate and emerge as flies.

As the larvae burrows into the animal and travels through to the animal's blood stream as it travels the larvae changes and eventually becomes mature as it arrives at the right side of the animal's heart where it will reproduce and may grow to twelve inches long.

After hatching from eggs, developing as larvae, and pupating, the adult fleas acquire a nearby suitable host.

This makes sense, as larvae of these insects don't consume adult feces, while flea larvae do.

Puppies and kittens can be infected transplacentally or while nursing as the larvae pass into them with the mother's milk.

Heartworm is a parasite that is transmitted as larvae in blood to dogs by mosquitoes.

For instance, the tick that transmits Lyme prefers small rodents as larvae, larger animals like raccoons, cats and humans as nymphs.

Many vets will use a pre-treatment of antihistamines and anti-inflammatory drugs to prevent a reaction as the larvae die.

This is not a problem for the flea as it already has its exoskeleton but it is a problem for any eggs laid by the flea as the larvae inside will not have the chitin egg - tooth they need to break out of the shell.

A variety of organs may be affected as the larvae migrate through the body.

Cat infestations are less common as the larvae are less likely to survive in the feline host.

These flies feed on aphids as larvae, and aphids are found on tender new growth.

As larvae hatch without functional gills, the main site for effective acid - base regulation, the mechanisms to cope with a low pH environment are particularly costly.

Corals, sea squirts, sponges and tube worms all begin life as larvae floating in the water, and other research teams have shown that they too respond to compounds released by bacteria as signals to attach themselves to rocks or other surfaces and transition to a new life form.

Infected nymphs (artificially infected as larvae) were fed on naïve mice and removed at various time points during feeding.

Cicadas are a common soundtrack to summer, but did you know species vary depending on how many years they spend underground as larvae?

In this case, queen and worker ants typically develop to be quite distinct adults based on how much food they get as larvae.

The accuracy of lock - step changes in the microbiota after death is shown to be on a par with blowflies, a current and popular forensic tool and which are attracted to vertebrate corpses where they lay eggs that develop as larvae in known time increments.

This observation suggests that as larvae increase in size and add pairs of arms, they are more likely to be passively re-oriented by moving water, rather than being stabilized (by mechanisms associated with increased mass), potentially leading to differential transport.

First, these insects occupy a wide variety of environments as larvae so they are exposed to a wider variety of fungi.

They might have clung to free - floating algae beds or swimming cephalopods, either of which could have carried them far away from where they formed as larvae.

2, 2016, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Allen will explain how the team expanded on previous work, combining acoustical, high speed optical and infrared camera measurements to determine mechanisms of sound generation for adult male and female beetles, as well as larvae, during their different stages of development.

Amphibians are a group that is highly sensitive to global warming due to the permeability of their skin and their complex lifecycle, which combines an aquatic stage as larvae and a terrestrial stage when young and as adults.

I saw an Animal Planet program last year about a toddler who ingested raccoon roundworm eggs at a playground and almost died as the larva went into his brain, ate through his -LSB-...]

At first the virus seems to build up harmlessly in brain cells, but as soon as the larva breaks out, these cells burst open, unleashing destruction all around them.

A cyst or thick capsule is created under the skin as the larva grows; a circular breathing hole may appear as an open wound with matted hair around it.

As a larva feeds on the feces, its digestive tract will turn a dark ruby - red to purple color.

As a larva feeds on flea dirt, its gut turns a dark red to purple color.

Not exact matches

Each wasp will zero in on a target by feeling out the vibrations the beetle larva causes as it roots through the tree.

Frontline Plus for Cats is a cat - safe flea treatment that kills ticks as well as fleas, flea eggs and larvae.

Alcoholic beverages could last much longer, since the alcohol levels would kill insect eggs and larvae as well as germs.

Just as a butterfly develops from a larva, growing inside a shell which was once the skin of a grub, so out of the chrysalis of Christendom there is currently emerging a new kind of society — a global, humanistic and secular society.

Though not seen face to face, this God is yet encountered with a striking immediacy in the larvae Dei — the created marvels of God's hand, the bread and wine at mass, even the mystery of one's own self as created being.

And larvae are fed what is a mix of partly digested nectar and pollen to form a gooey high protein food known as beebread.

Significant technical limitations inhibit the more rapid expansion of organic aquaculture, especially access to organic food sources, but also production of larvae, protection from parasites such as sea - lice and removal of competition from unwanted species in open cages.

Ideally when wild larvae are used, it is by a passive capture system, such as where coastal lagoons are opened for entry of larvae during the spawning season and closed for the remainder of the production cycle.

To survive and thrive, Australian cotton farmers need higher yields and lower production costs, as well as in - built protection from pests like the Helicoverpa larvae.

This month, dragonfly and damselfly larvae will start to emerge from the water as adults.

«We know that because, very basically, mosquito larvae are aquatic organisms and it kills them, so it will kill other aquatic organisms as well.»

That allows her to image the cells of awake, moving creatures, such as the flashing neurons of crawling fly larvae or the beating hearts of twitching zebrafish, without the problem of blurring when the animal moves.

Some moths use fruit of trees they pollinate as food for their larvae, but one East Asian moth matures within the fruit right until adulthood

Bite: A. americanum larvae and nymphs feed on birds and deer, even lizards and have been known to transmit STARI, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and other Lyme - like diseases, but the CDC does not recognize the lone star as a transmitter of true Lyme.

The tiny swimming larvae of these sea creatures, also known as moss animals, may live up to a week, long enough to settle in to a new habitat.

Guinea worms start out as minuscule larvae living inside water fleas of the genus Cyclops.

The team also found that N - methyl -2-pyrrolidone (NMP)-- an inert, or inactive, chemical commonly used as a pesticide additive — is highly toxic to honeybee larvae.

«They» were cannibalistic spadefoot toad larvae, commonly known as tadpoles.

The practice seems to be even more prevalent, and less discriminating, among invertebrates such as mollusks, insects and spiders, whose eggs, larvae and young are often produced in profusion and are therefore readily available, not to mention