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- noun Plural form of
instar .
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Examples
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Their development passes through a number of growing stages called instars followed by pupation.
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"instars," until they become full-fledged caterpillars with deep red heads, purplish bodies and green-and-red spines.
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"instars," until they become full-fledged caterpillars with deep red heads, purplish bodies and green-and-red spines.
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And forty-seven Murr forms, which is of course only a fraction of their possible instars, but nevertheless provides me with an extraordinary insight into their nature.
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The maggot stage, in particular, can be further subdivided into three distinct phases, known as instars.
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Bringing up the rear, the caboose of this post are these two fifth instars of the black swallowtail butterfly, or is it a fifth and a fourth, written about recently here.
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On one day, I counted at least 20, but they are difficult to see when in the first instars.
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I love the early instars and have been looking daily for their return…Maybe now that the rains have stopped there will be a few eggs laid and hatched.
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What a difference in those instars — how consider of the caterpillars to clean up after themselves after molting.
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The larvae progress through 3 to 4 larval instars, sometimes more in the case of black flies and a few other species.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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