Sentences with phrase «tiny larvae»

Farmers harvest the tiny larvae from fly eggs.

The first stages of the Ornate Ghostpipefish's life is a struggle; battling early life in the oceans currents as tiny larvae.

Dogs can become infected either by ingesting infective eggs in the same way as roundworms through the environment or the tiny larvae can burrow into the skin.

Step 4: Over the course of about 5 1/2 months, these tiny larvae grow into adult heartworms and travel to the heart and pulmonary arteries.

A ghostly phosphorescence, a gleaming flash, its large eyes unblinking as it slipped into a seam in the current, then rose toward the luminous surface where a school of tuna was pecking at the tiny larvae and crustaceans snagged on a weed line.

Although that in itself was initially a mystery, scientists now know these animals release tiny larvae that get carried by ocean currents to different vents, where they settle and form a new colony.

They begin their life as tiny larvae and grow into animals measuring several inches long.

Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

Nearly all contained water and were infested with tiny larvae.

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A walking coral larva latches onto a tiny mollusk shell containing a juvenile hermit crab and starts to grow.

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.

Research led by Margery Smelkinson found that NS1 modulates the activitiy of a signaling cascade known as the Hedgehog pathway (so named because fruit fly larvae lacking the Hedgehog gene emerge hairless and resemble tiny hedgehogs).

On a ship hull, the larvae of the barnacle will leave tiny traces of proteins to test if the surface is attractive for long - term attachment.

In addition to the microbes tangled together in the granules, they've found that the watery oases also house other bacteria, algae, fungi, single - celled animals called protozoans, and even tiny invertebrate animals including insect larvae, worms and various tardigrades.

Both had what looked like tiny barbed hairs stuck to their bodies — these hairlike structures are frequently found on beetle larvae that hung out in dinosaur nests.

Every summer the larvae of a tiny insect known as the European corn borer (right) wreak havoc on American corn crops, costing farmers nearly a billion dollars annually.

«The hatcheries call it «lazy larvae syndrome» because these tiny oysters just sink in the water and stop swimming,» Waldbusser says.

The cod, haddock, and other fish off New England's coast, pushed to the brink by overfishing, face a new threat: tiny, tentacled killers that eat fish larvae.

UQ Marine Spatial Ecology Lab PhD student Nicolas Evensen said colonisation by tiny coral larvae was a key process that promoted reef recovery after degradation.

Each tiny, free - swimming larva — also known as a planula — heads off and installs itself on a rock, which is carefully selected to allow it to hang head - down in the shade, and develops into a polyp.

«It would be almost impossible to do a study like this on eel larvae,» he says, simply because tiny, transparent eels are tough to gather in large numbers in the open ocean.

In outdoor tests, the most successful of four tiny parasitic wasp species released in North America did what they're supposed to: Tetrastichus planipennisi doomed some beetle larvae in ash trees by using the youngsters as living food for baby wasps.

He began to think that the larvae of Plodia interpunctella, a tiny grain - eating moth found in kitchens worldwide, might be digesting the plastic film with the help of bacteria in their guts.

Attached to the ticks are tiny hairs that can be attributed to beetle larvae — specifically skin beetles (dermestids), which we know can be found in bird nests today, eating feathers and skin debris.

Setälä and her colleagues used 10 - micrometre (µm) fluorescent polystyrene microspheres, which were roughly the same size as some of the food particles that tiny zooplankton, such as copepods and polychaete larvae, eat.

The larvae feed on organic matter and eventually spin a tiny cocoon and pupate.

These tiny worm - like larvae alsodevelop in the environment inconspiculously, feeding on organic matter, shedded skin scales, and blood protien rich adult flea feces.

Eggs hatch into tiny six - legged larvae that suck blood, drop off the host to molt into eight - legged nymphs, and again seek a blood meal before dropping off the host and molting into the adult stage.

The larva opens a tiny breathing hole (a fistula) in the skin.

They are tiny little bugs that prey on both adult fleas and larvae, which may be purchased at a local nursery or greenhouse and are another great way to control fleas in the yard.

You are happy and relieved to find out that his test is negative (remember that larvae that are less than 6 - 7 months into development are tiny and undetectable).

These cells live in the tiny blood vessels in the cat's lungs and fight to get rid of intruders, but the cat becomes ill as these cells try to kill off the larvae.

We ordered a bag from Amazon and it was ridden with tiny bugs that turned into larvae and finally small moths.

Tiny heartworm larvae are injected into the blood stream where they mature over the span of about 6 months until they reach adulthood in the veins of the pulmonary artery and lungs, where they reproduce and release microfilaria into the blood for the mosquito to ingest and pass on.

A nematode, which is a tiny worm, is applied via lawn sprayer, and, within 24 hours, brings about a 90 % decrease in the number of flea larvae.

Mosquitoes carrying heartworm larvae bite dogs and inject the infective larvae into the dog under the skin or into tiny blood vessels as the mosquito takes its blood meal.

But don't blame yourself — flea eggs and larvae are tiny and can be difficult to spot, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

The mosquito bites the infected dog, ingests the tiny heartworm microfilaria, provides a host for the next stage of development of the parasite, then transfers the juvenile larvae to the bloodstream of the next dog she feeds on.

The bite deposits tiny heartworm larvae into the animal's bloodstream.

In the hard - shelled pupa, the larva transforms from a tiny maggot - like creature into a six - legged blood - thirsty super-jumper able to leap 150 times its own body length, and the cycle begins anew.