Sentences with phrase «young larvae»

The digestive tract is similar to that of free - living nematodes only in the young larvae prior to their parasitic life; in the parasitic stages the oesophagus is disconnected from the mid-intestine, and females lack an anus.

The spherules are thought to be preferred by young larvae, while the protein - rich coils are more suitable for 3rd instars.

In both groups, the young larvae showed lots of genetic variation.

By day five, young larvae are able to feed and swim, and within three months they are ready to reproduce.

According to the Shellac & Forest Products Export Promotion Council: «Lac cultivation is done by putting sticks of lac encrustations (broodlac) which contain mature female (gravid) insects, which are about to give birth to young larvae, on suitably prepared specific host plants.

However, larvae will also cannibalistically feed on eggs and younger larvae.

Not exact matches

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

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.

[TL:] «And the larvae have to climb up the stems because they mine into the young stems on the plant, which are about half a meter to a meter up the stem.

Discus fish feed their young through a strange form of nursing; the larvae nibble at a protein - packed mucus secretion on their parents» skin.

The dominant piscine predators dine on the smaller fish around a reef, which, in turn, prey on the small invertebrates that chow down the starfish larvae (young).

When hatched the larvae consume the host egg or larva, while they are still young, and after eliminating competition they move onto consuming the provisions.

When she and Duarte raised the burying beetle larvae with germ - free mice, which lack any gut bacteria, the young did not grow as large as those buried with regular mice.

The young parasitoid larvae then hitchhike in the ants» mouthparts until they are eventually transferred, possibly as potential food, to the ant larvae in the nest.

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

A young goat herder prepares to drink dam water through a pipe filter, which keep out the water fleas that serve as an intermediate host for Guinea worm larvae.

Further inspection finds that the young bees of the colony, who should be plump, pearly - white larvae, have melted into a puddle of brownish goo at the bottom of their cells.

When young C. elegans larvae are cultured in adverse environmental conditions, they pause their development by entering dauer quiescence — an arrested, non-aging and stress - resistant stage.

The resulting young, called larvae, would develop while drifting in ocean currents.

Finally, although Seamus tested positive for heartworms, because of his age (Dr. Levy estimates he still young, probably about a year old), it is unlikely that the heartworm microfilaria (the heartworm larvae spread through the bite of a mosquito) has had an opportunity to develop into advanced heartworm disease.

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.

Continuous monthly administration of prophylactic doses of ivermectin, alone or in combination with pyrantel pamoate, is also highly effective against late precardiac larvae and young (< 7 mo postinfection) quasi-adult HW.

These larvae migrate through the dog's body for 50 - 70 days until they become young adult worms.

When an infected mosquito bites a dog, it releases young heartworms, called larvae, which mature into bigger worms that lodge in the dog's heart and lungs.

Most visceral larva migrans patients are young children (age 1 to 4) as they are ones who are at highest risk from oral exposure to contaminated soil.

«Dogs are infected with heartworms by mosquitoes, but it takes a long time for heartworm larvae to mature into adult, reproducing worms that can strangle the heart,» says Jennifer Miller, President of FOTAS, «so heartworm disease in a healthy, young dog is treatable with a course of antibiotics, which weakens any maturing worms, followed by monthly heartworm prevention medicine, like Heartguard, which every dog in the South should be on anyway.»

Flea larvae spin a cocoon, and, when appropriately stimulated, a young adult flea emerges and jumps onto your pet to continue the life cycle.

Flea larvae spin a cocoon, and, when appropriately stimulated, a young adult flea emerges and jumps onto the pet to continue the life cycle.

When worm eggs hatch inside your cat, young roundworm larvae are released internally and migrate to the lungs.

Any larvae too young to be stopped by the preventive at dosing time will not be covered until the next month's dose.

The spray is designed to kill fleas at all stages life — Eggs, Larvae, Young and Adult effectively breaking their life cycle for up to 2 months.

The larvae then mature in the young pup and start laying eggs when the puppy is about three weeks of age.

Have a young hedgehog infested with fleas — and ticks — but is blinded by flea larvae wanting to enter the eyes, ears and nostrils.

The larvae grow into young crabs in food - rich shoreline areas such as the waters off Crissy Field.

The young coral larvae (negatively phototactic: does not like light) settles in cracks and holes on the ocean side of the reef and then grows outward from the hole.

For about a month, the young lobster larvae float about in the currents.

Coral larvae will also have less distance to travel to find a place to settle, giving each young polyp a greater chance of success.

Indeed, cod have already been negatively affected.3, 10 The shifts in plankton ecosystems linked to warmer surface temperatures have produced a poor food environment for young cod (larvae), reducing the chances that they will survive until they are large enough to be harvested.10