Caterpillars are voracious feeders and many of them are considered to be pests in agriculture.

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Caterpillars of the Coleophoridae case-bearer moths Coleophora glitzella, Coleophora idaeella and Coleophora vitisella are obligate feeders on Vaccinium vitis-idaea leaves.

Caterpillars are found mainly on Ammobium alatum.

Caterpillars are the staple food for nestlings, with some – e. g. those of geometer moths ( Geometridae ) – preferred over others.

Caterpillars of the Ulysses Butterfly ( Papilio ulysses ) are fond of M. elleryana ; on M. clusiifolia caterpillars of Thyrocopa moths have been found.

Caterpillars are pressed from end to end to remove the guts before they are swallowed.

Caterpillars that create shelters from leaves are also creating shelters for other organisms which may occupy them either simultaneously or subsequently.

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The larvae are called Puss Caterpillars, and with their long hairs, resemble cotton balls.

Caterpillars of the genus are protected from predators by their long spinous bristles.

Caterpillars are very fast eaters ; they will spend their time eating or resting before they resume their eating again.

Caterpillars are preyed upon by birds, but these shy away ( at least for some time ) from caterpillars in " snake " pose.

Caterpillars of this family are large in size and are most often hairy, especially on their sides.

Caterpillars continue to expand their tent until they enter the last phase of their larval lives.

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Caterpillars of such Lepidoptera as Brimstone Moth, Brown-tail, Grey Dagger, Mottled Umber, Rough Prominent, The Satellite, Winter Moth, and the Red-Spotted Purple and the White Admiral ( both Limenitis arthemis ), as well as various other herbivorous insects feed on Amelanchier.

Caterpillars normally become moths within months of hatching in most temperate climates, but in the Arctic the summer period for vegetative growth and hence feeding is so short, that the Woolly Bear feeds for several summers, freezing again each winter before finally pupating.

Caterpillars of the moth Coleophora bifrondella feed exclusively on Winter savory ( S. montana ).

Caterpillars can be confused with the larvae of sawflies ( see image on right ).

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Caterpillars of many species except those of the Riodininae have a gland on the 7th abdominal segment that produces honey dew and is called the dorsal nectary gland ( also called Newcomer's gland ).

Caterpillars can usually be found on young adult leaves between October and March ( the Australian Spring and Summer ).

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Caterpillars of the Oleander Hawk-moth ( Daphnis nerii ) have been found to feed on Pinwheel Flower ( T. divaricata ).

Caterpillars also feed on plants of the plantain family, such as Plantago ; and the Acanthus family including ruellia ( Ruellia nodiflora ).

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But they are still enclosed in their larval cells and remain there throughout the summer, fall, and winter.

Amphibians typically have a larval stage that lives in water but there are many different behavioural adaptations that have developed among species to bypass this necessity.

Traditionally, amphibians as a class are defined as all tetrapods with a larval stage, while the group that includes the common ancestors of all living amphibians ( frogs, salamanders and caecilians ) and all their descendants is called Lissamphibia.

These large amphibians retain several larval characteristics in their adult state ; gills slits are present and the eyes are unlidded.

When conditions are particularly inhospitable on land, larval breeding may allow continuation of a population that would otherwise die out.

It is at this point — when they are roughly 13. 5 centimeters in length — that they lose the gills that were present during their larval stage, and develop toes from lobes on their front limbs and “ paddle-shaped ” hind limbs.

By contrast, meroplankton are only planktic for part of their lives ( usually the larval stage ), and then graduate to either a nektic or benthic ( sea floor ) existence.

The gills of other insects are tracheal, and also include both thin plates and tufted structures, and, in the larval dragon fly, the wall of the caudal end of the alimentary tract ( rectum ) is richly supplied with tracheae as a rectal gill.

These species are parasitic in the larval stage on the larvae of horntail wasps, hence the egg must be deposited directly into the host's body as it is feeding.

Those species that are direct developing bypass this prolonged larval stage and develop directly into an adult worm.

The eggs are planktonic, or attached to algae, and hatch into miniature versions of the adult, without a well-defined larval stage.

Parasitoids are organisms whose larval development occurs inside or on the surface of another organism, resulting in the death of the host.

The foregoing strategies are used, variously, by larval stages of tapeworms, thorny-headed worms, flukes and parasitic roundworms.

In most groups, there are further larval stages, including the zoea ( pl.

Despite their diversity of form, crustaceans are united by the special larval form known as the nauplius.

They are holoplanktonic ; that is, they spend their whole life in a planktonic form, rather than just being planktonic during the larval stage, as is more commonly the case in many marine gastropods, whose veliger larvae are part of the meroplankton.

Some species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees ; however, some species are agents of pollination of some plants, and caterpillars of a few butterflies ( e. g., Harvesters ) eat harmful insects.

Wing disks are very small until the last larval instar, when they increase dramatically in size, are invaded by branching tracheae from the wing base that precede the formation of the wing veins, and begin to develop patterns associated with several landmarks of the wing.

Near pupation, the wings are forced outside the epidermis under pressure from the hemolymph, and although they are initially quite flexible and fragile, by the time the pupa breaks free of the larval cuticle they have adhered tightly to the outer cuticle of the pupa ( in obtect pupae ).