Sentences with phrase «larvae which»

There may also be flea eggs and larvae which need to be removed.

The dog will then cough up and swallow the larvae which then migrate to the intestinal tract, where they mature and complete their life cycle.

The eggs hatch in the dog's gut, releasing larvae which penetrate the wall of the intestines.

After a few weeks, they hatch and become larvae which feed on almost anything organic.

In other words, dogs may ingest dead animals that transport larvae which are then released into the dog's intestinal tract once the host is digested.

Even better, flea drops don't just kill adult fleas - they wipe out pre-adult fleas like eggs and larvae which make up the majority of flea infestations.

The pre-patent period refers to the time in which a dog has early developmental larvae which can not be detected on a heartworm test, even though your dog is already harboring heartworm infection.

Between two days and two weeks later the eggs hatch into larvae which cocoon themselves the way caterpillars do before turning into butterflies, before emerging as fully developed fleas when conditions are right (which can take anything from one week to six months).

The eggs hatch in 3 - 10 days producing a larvae which, in turn, move about on the skin surface eventually molting into a «nymphal» stage and finally into an adult.

The eggs develop into larvae which when ingested and swallowed by a dog or cat migrate to the liver, then the lungs and are then coughed up, swallowed and mature to adult hood in the small intestine.

The mature heart worms begin producing larvae which then enters the dog's bloodstream.

That does not mean that those people have significant, clinical disease but it does mean that at some point in time those individuals were exposed to roundworm larvae which resulted in their bodies producing antibodies in an effort to clear the infection.

This product also effectively kills eggs and larvae which means that you'll have a flea - free dog for longer than with products that only use insecticides to kill any fleas currently on your pet.

Hookworm eggs thrive in warm, moist areas outdoors (soil / grass / sand) and turn into larvae which can infect your puppy in several other ways:

Glycosidase - silenced larvae which ingested the deglycosylated product did not show such molting failure and mortality.

«The embryos of living jellyfish usually develop into bizarre alien - like larvae which metamorphose into anemone - like adults before the final jellyfish (or «medusa») phase.

Since the fish eggs are only a few hours old, this technique allows researchers to assign spawning locations with certainty, as opposed to methods of looking for older larvae which could have been floating in the ocean for weeks or even months.

The tapeworm larva which lives in the flea will emerge and infect the dog's intestine.

The next stage is the opaque white larva which, when grown, spins a cocoon which we call a pupa.

Egg hatches and forms a larva which is very small, the size of a head of a pin, and it attaches usually to a small mammal or bird.

Many of these products will kill heartworm larva which can cause a reaction in heartworm - positive pets.

The fecal contents are devoured by black soldier fliy larva which also drive away house flies by eating their larva.

Not exact matches

Woodpeckers, which enjoy a nice snack of borer larvae, are another key ally.

The chemical works by interfering with the hormones that help insect larvae hatch, which doesn't happen in humans.

One advantage of these products is that they generally contain insect growth regulators (IGRs), which prevent eggs from hatching and larvae from maturing into adult fleas.

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.

The ossified structure of Christian dogma may be likened to the hard shell which protected the growth of the larva.

I went to a local market to sample real regional delicacies: bamboo and silk worms, crickets, and some larvae to which I was never formally introduced.

It takes care of hatching eggs and larvae left behind so they can't reproduce which completely stops the infestation.

Because of the deficit of freshwater and increase in salinity from the drought, conch larvae proliferated, resulting in an abundance of the conch, which then led to a greater consumption of oysters on the reef.

Frost kills both adults and larvae, which is why the disease hadn't previously been able to get a foothold in the United States.

Plus, it is essential to get routine down in determining the species of larvae, pupae, adult flies, and beetles — which is a frustrating, painstaking process.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

We, therefore, concluded that ergosterol was in fact being used by the larvae to produce molting hormone, which reinforces the dependency between these bees and the fungus.»

The first is the maggot - like larval stage during which the insect eats and builds up resources; the second is the transformatory pupa stage, from which the legless, wingless larvae emerge into the third and final adult stage of their lives as 6 - legged, winged flies.

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.

In Australia, they savored the sweet - and - sour tang of honey ants and sampled scale insect larvae, which taste like fresh mushrooms and pop softly in the mouth.

«Our results indicated first that larvae of various species have a diet adapted to the conditions under which they reproduce.

The researchers conducted a laboratory experiment in which they exposed the larvae of these three species to various kinds of heat waves, which varied in duration and intensity, by increasing the temperature of the water where they were growing.

Unlike humans, zebrafish larvae are transparent, which allowed researchers to watch their brains as they slept.

Another includes two ticks together, both of which have hairs stuck to them from a type of beetle larvae thought to live in dinosaur nests.

It is, however, clear that cocaine is taken up rapidly and continuously by zebrafish larvae, which at this early stage have not yet a fully developed blood - brain barrier.

Researchers in Spain and England recently found that the larvae of the greater wax moth can efficiently degrade polyethylene, which accounts for 40 percent of plastics.

By applying it artificially, the researchers not only pushed the larvae past the threshold at which they would normally become regular soldiers, but past a second threshold, one that is normally hidden, creating supersoldiers.

Meet the supersoldiers The species collected in New York, Pheidole morrisi, normally has two types of worker ants, according to Abouheif: minor workers, which are responsible for foraging, nursing, feeding eggs and larvae, and taking care of the queen; and soldier ants, which defend the nest and use their big mandibles to crack seeds harvested by the minor workers.

A month later, those eggs hatch into larvae, which munch on the leaves.

Along the way, the researchers also kept an eye on ticks, as white - footed mice are a reservoir of the Lyme disease spirochete, which they transmit to tick larvae.

After being fertilized by the dwarf, the female bears a motile larva and immediately expires; the male, which has no digestive system, dies a little later.

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.

In the skin the larvae mate and form so - called new microfilaria, which then reach the dog's bloodstream.