Sentences with phrase «where larvae»

When the mosquito bites your dog, it deposits heartworm larvae into the bloodstream where the larvae mature into adult heartworms over the next six months.

«What's exciting about this is that it suggests that blackberry functions as a kind of ecological trap, enticing mosquitoes to lay their eggs in a place where the larvae are unlikely to survive.»

Gretchen Hofmann who studies sea urchin larvae calls this the «double jeopardy» problem, where larvae can still make their skeletal rods, but doing so comes at the cost of being able to cope with thermal stress.

If a dog licks the soil that has been contaminated with dog feces containing the whipworm eggs, the eggs are passed down to the new dog's colon where the larvae are released into the intestinal epithelium.

After the eggs hatch, this is also where the larvae hang out and eat flea droppings until they become adults and can suck blood all on their own.

Cutaneous larva migrans (CLM) occurs as red, inflamed lesions in the skin where the larvae of canine hookworms burrow under the skin.

They are lower to the ground, so they're more likely to be getting into rabbit holes and places where the larvae are.»

The parasitic wasp Dinocampus coccinellae is known to lay its eggs in the circulatory system of ladybugs, where larvae feed on ladybug tissues before pushing out of her abdomen.

The data can help to predict where larvae will travel over the course of the larval stage and even show that larvae could be transported over long distances to far off vent fields.

The study consisted of an experiment developed in the Centre for Environmental Biology in Grândola (Portugal), where the larvae of the five populations were raised from tadpoles to metamorphosis in the presence or absence of the red swamp crayfish.

In addition to the fungicidal fungi, scientists have also seen small bugs laying their eggs in the infected ant corpse, where their larvae can then eat the growing fungus.

The aptly named Charcoal Beetles breed only in the presence of forest fires and lay their eggs beneath the bark of recently burned trees where their larva can feed on the fresh wood.

Not exact matches

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.

Once they have matured from larvae to fry, the fish leave the streams where they hatched and swim to the open ocean.

The free larvae then burrow out of the intestine and cross to the chest or abdominal wall, where the male and female worms mature and mate.

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.

The ants colonise more than half the broad - snouted caiman nests, where the fermenting bedding material provides the humidity and warmth the insects» eggs and larvae need.

Larvae grow into free - floating juvenile animals and eventually attach to the ocean bottom, where they grow to adulthood within 18 months.

The female uses its exceptional hearing to locate the songs of male crickets, where it deposits its larvae.

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.

Their eggs and larvae drifted for weeks offshore, bathed in oily water, before the juveniles at last took refuge in the shallow coastal estuaries, where they will mature.

She then lays an egg in the ball and buries it in a network of tunnels more than a meter deep, where it serves as food for the developing larvae inside.

«Larvae often accumulate in small - scale features such as ocean fronts, where temperature and salinity vary at small distances.

Dr Erica Hendy, Lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles in the School of Earth Sciences, added: «However, you simply can't tag a coral larvae to follow where it ends up as you would a large marine animal like a turtle or shark.

It reproduces preferably in permanent areas of water where it comes into contact with the red swamp crayfish, which preys on its larvae.

The larvae, less than 0.1 mm in size, are responsible for finding their way into the ant nest where they attack and kill the larvae and pupae of the ants.

The team placed the rainbow trout larvae in a box with two compartments: one for the head, where gills develop, and one for the tail.

He rolled the larvae between his fingers, rubbing its skin against a stick he used as a pestle, and then extracted its tissue in one of his special tools — an old giraffe or kudu knuckle bone, where he could mix it with the rest of the ingredients.

Ant - like ornaments (pictured) were a hit among the females who most heavily fed on ants that fell into the streams and rivers where the fish live; oval, egg - like ornaments were popular with females that preferred beetles and beetle larvae.

ROYAL MESS Queen bee larvae dine on something called royal jelly inside the cells where they grow.

Forecasts of how severe an outbreak will be, where it might move, and who is most susceptible would help health officials concentrate resources in the right places, killing mosquitos and their larvae, or eliminating out potential breeding grounds in places of high risk.

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.

DeVries says that when he placed caterpillars on plants where there were no ants, none of the larvae survived.

The ants carry the beetle, dropping it off in the brood chamber, where it eats eggs and 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.

On both islands, shellfish foraging sites (where the oyster beds are located) face north - west and the currents transporting planktonic larvae and therefore supply of new prey affect each island similarly.

The river drains into Buzzards Bay, where eelgrass holds sand in place on bay floors and shelters young finfish, scallop larvae and other wildlife.

Managers and scientists wanted to know how it had recovered so quickly and where the coral larvae came from.

Especially in areas where land use changes are expected to be most severe, is where insect larvae, snails, worms and leeches might become endangered.

Although there was no effect in the null mutant, we found ilp2 mRNA expression increased and AKT expression level was down regulated in larvae where either TOR signaling activity or the expression of GBP1 and GBP2 was specifically reduced in the fat body.

Fish larvae on the Great Barrier Reef can find their way home after weeks of drifting in the sea even where the currents are strong, thanks to their senses of smell and hearing, tw...

Dr. Rebecca Vega Thurber received her doctorate in 2005 from Stanford University where she studied developmental cell signaling pathways in sea urchin larvae.

After injection, the embryos are put back into a cell culture dish, where they divide and develop; after 30 hours or so, the hatched larvae look recognizably fishy under a microscope.

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.

The mosquito bites another dog where the haircoat is thinnest, transmitting this infective larvae into the second dog.

Dogs can also acquire roundworms by licking the ground where roundworm larvae are and by eating small animals that carry the worms.

When fully developed, the infective larvae enter the bloodstream of the dog and move to the heart and adjacent vessels, where they grow to maturity in 2 — 4 months and start reproducing, thereby completing the full lifecycle (total 6 — 8 months).

Heartworm is usually brought on by mosquito bites and the larvae travels through a dog's blood until it reaches the heart or lungs where it starts to grow and can reach 12 inches in length.

Because it takes around 6 - 7 months for heartworm larvae to reach the stage where they are obstructing bloodflow and causing symptoms, young puppies won't show any signs of heartworm but they do need to be protected against it.

Because developing fleas can not survive in direct sunlight, larvae thrive in the shade — where cats and dogs frequently rest and / or sleep.