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- noun Plural form of
larva .
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Examples
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Some larvas of firefly species are adults in the spring; other kinds take another summer and winter to become an adult.
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Some larvas of firefly species are adults in the spring; other kinds take another summer and winter to become an adult.
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En vuelo eclosión y metamorfosis nacen pequeñas las larvas blancas y ápodas una larva sellada en su celda estadio de ninfa pupa nodrizas las abejas operculan las celdillas
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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Quidam larvas, et malos spiritus ab inimicis veneficius et incantationibus sibi putant objectari, Hippocrates, potionem se veneficam sumpsisse putat, et de hac ructare sibi crebro videtur.
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Morales, R.O. (1989) Diseo de un mtodo para evaluar el effecto de extractos vegetales sobre la viabilidad de huevos de larvas de Ascaris lumbricoides (Tesis).
Chapter 9 1991
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Ovando, A.E. (1989) Diseo de un mtodo para evaluar el efecto de extractos vegetales sobre la viabilidad de huevos de larvas de Ascaris lumbricoides (Tesis).
Chapter 9 1991
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There is in this case a risk of wireworm and black bot; but if the turf is provided in good time and is laid up in the yard ready for use, it will be searched by the small birds and pretty well cleansed of the insect larvas that may have lurked in it when first removed.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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It's not an easy matter to get in when the bees are not looking, but she manages it quite often; and when the little larvas hatch out of the eggs, they eat the wax and the mischief is done.
Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919
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As soon as the female bee deposits her eggs on the surface of the honey stored in the cells, the larvas of the Sitaris leap on the eggs and devour them.
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Australia, Asia, and Africa, which include the ingenious and tasteful satin bower birds, that form decorated bowers of twigs and shells to sport in; and here amid the grakles of the Indian Archipelago will be found those curious birds, that gather their sustenance from insect larvas which secrete in the coarse skin of the rhinoceros: these birds are known under the name of African beef-eaters.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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