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The larvae feed for several years on rotting deciduous wood, growing through three larval stages until eventually pupating inside a pupal cell constructed from surrounding wood pieces and soil particles.
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When the larvae hatch, they feed on the beebread, although they also receive extra honey meals from their mother.
Their larvae feed on glandular secretions and develop within the female's oviduct, often for long periods.
This is because the larvae are already carnivorous and continue to feed as predators when they are adults so few changes are needed to their digestive systems.
When they are newly hatched, frog larvae feed on the yolk of the egg.
They are also known to feed on other insects, larvae, and eggs, and occasionally small mammals and birds.
The larvae are lecithotrophic ( i. e. feed off a yolk sac ).
Other Lepidoptera whose larvae feed on Ailanthus include Endoclita malabaricus.
In some species the larvae have large yolks, go to feed, and quickly settle on a surface.
Others produce larvae that have little yolk but swim and feed for a few days before settling.
Grub composting uses the black soldier fly larvae ( BSFL ) to quickly convert manure or kitchen waste into an animal feed for poultry, fish, pigs, lizards, turtles, and possibly dogs.
The larvae of the more ancestral Hymenoptera resemble caterpillars in appearance, and like them, typically feed on leaves.
Stinging wasps are predators, and will provision their larvae with immobilised prey, while bees feed on nectar and pollen.
In newts, there is no true metamorphosis because newt larvae already feed as predators and continue doing so as adults.
Some swallowtail butterflies use parsley as a host plant for their larvae ; their caterpillars are black and green striped with yellow dots, and will feed on parsley for two weeks before turning into butterflies.
They live in cities that require much higher technology to build than the rest of the races on Rokanan, but live in bat-like societies, hunting for humans and animals on which their larvae feed by sucking their blood.
:* Some other Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) larvae also feed on cotton-see list of Lepidoptera that feed on cotton plants.
Rhododendron species are used as food plants by the larvae of some members of the order Lepidoptera ( butterflies and moths ) ( See List of Lepidoptera that feed on rhododendrons ).
After dragging the cockroach to a burrow, the wasp deposits an egg into its carcass, burying it for the growing larvae to feed off until it emerges in 6 weeks, leaving nothing but a hard outer cockroach shell.
Clovers are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species ; see list of Lepidoptera that feed on clovers.
The flame moth, rustic shoulder-knot and turnip moth are among the species of Lepidoptera whose larvae feed on rye.
Many other Hymenoptera other than bees consume pollen as adults, though only a small number feed on pollen as larvae ( including some ant larvae ).
These fish like to feed on smaller fish, shellfish, or insect larvae, but can be caught with nearly any bait.
The larvae live on yolk until the mouth is fully developed, at which time they begin to feed on copepods and other zooplankton.
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Most pollen is used as food for larvae.
The larvae of the insect the " foxglove pug " consume the flowers of the common foxglove for food.
For example, caterpillars ( butterfly larvae ) are specialized for feeding whereas adult butterflies ( imagos ) are specialised for flight and reproduction.
Frogs, toads, and newts all hatch from the egg as larvae with external gills but it would take some while for the amphibians to interact outside with pulmonary respiration.
There are also indications for transovarial and transstadial transmission of the yellow fever virus within A. aegypti, i. e., the transmission from a female mosquito to her eggs and then larvae.
The others have the characteristic wide flat beak adapted to dredging-type jobs such as pulling up waterweed, pulling worms and small molluscs out of mud, searching for insect larvae, and bulk jobs such as dredging out, holding, turning headfirst, and swallowing a squirming frog.
A novel use for a related species known as oh-titadori ( Polygonum sachalinense ), done in Hokkaido is feeding it to larvae of sea urchins in aquaculture.
At the end of each instar, the larvae molt, shedding their skins to allow for further growth.
The bioluminescence of the larvae of fireflies is also circularly polarized, as reported in 1980 for the species Photuris lucicrescens and Photuris versicolor.
For fireflies, it is more difficult to find a microscopic explanation for the polarization, because the left and right lanterns of the larvae were found to emit polarized light of opposite senses.
The emerald jewel wasp ( Ampulex compressa ) parasitises its host, the American cockroach ( Periplaneta americana ) as a food source and home for its growing larvae.
They are not killed by this hypokinesia, but would recover if not for the larvae eating them from the inside out.
Zoea larvae swim with their thoracic appendages, as opposed to nauplii, which use cephalic appendages, and megalopa, which use abdominal appendages for swimming.
Casu marzu ( also called casu modde, casu cundídu, casu fràzigu in Sardinian language, or in Italian formaggio marcio, " rotten cheese ") is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese, notable for containing live insect larvae.
When disturbed, the larvae can launch themselves for distances up to.
Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to when disturbed, diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping.
Identical milk cheeses notable for containing living insect larvae are produced in several Italian regions
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The leaves are eaten by the larvae of several species of Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) including the blood-vein moth.
There are several other regional varieties of cheese with fly larvae in Europe.
Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) larvae may feed parasitically on only a single plant, or they may graze on several nearby plants.
Moth larvae may be killed by freezing the items which they infest for several days at a temperature below.
The adult beetles continue to protect the larvae, which take several days to mature.
The plants ' ecological strategy varies ; several species of Stapelia for example, attract carrion flies that futilely lay their eggs on the flower, where their larvae promptly starve for lack of carrion.
Brambles are important food plants for the larvae of several species of Lepidoptera — see list of Lepidoptera that feed on Rubus.
The nektonic larvae metamorphose through several stages before the skeleton or test begins to form, at which point they become benthos.
The fly larvae are small, though faster-growing than the wasp larva, and if there is only one, the wasp is likely to complete its metamorphosis successfully, but when there are several it might suffer from malnutrition or even get eaten itself, which amounts to incidental kleptoparasitoidy.
However, there are some indications that in contrast to Murray cod larvae, eastern freshwater cod larvae may not drift in river currents for several days after leaving their nest.
The larvae of the Spruce Budworm moth cause defoliation and if it occurs several years in a row will lead to death, though Black Spruce is less susceptible than White Spruce or Balsam Fir.
When worker bees decide to make a new queen, either because the old one is weakening, or was killed, they choose several small larvae and feed them with copious amounts of royal jelly in specially constructed queen cells.
The mushroom is also used as a food source by several species of mushroom flies, as well as other insects and their larvae.
Nettles are the exclusive larval food plant for several species of butterfly, such as the Peacock Butterfly or the Small Tortoiseshell, and are also eaten by the larvae of some moths including Angle Shades, Buff Ermine, Dot Moth, The Flame, The Gothic, Grey Chi, Grey Pug, Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, Mouse Moth, Setaceous Hebrew Character and Small Angle Shades.
If several larvae inhabit the same root, the plant can be killed.
Atheriniform larvae share several characteristics ; the gut is unusually short, there is a single row of melanophores along the back, and the fin rays do not become evident until some time after hatching.
Like several other Arctiidae moth larvae, the cinnabar caterpillars can turn cannibalistic.
Lloyd devoted several studies to the possibility, often recounted but never previously accounted for under scientific conditions, that Utricularia can consume larger prey such as young tadpoles and mosquito larvae by catching them by the tail, and ingesting them bit by bit.
Hope described several cases of myiasis from Jamaica caused by unknown larvae, one of which resulted in death .< ref >“ Introduction to Myiasis .” The Natural History Museum of London.
After feeding for several weeks, the larvae dig a cell in the soil and molt into the pupal stage.
Most larvae are found on human corpses during the dry and skeletal phases of decomposition, which occurs several days after death.
The witchetty grub ( also spelled witchety grub or witjuti grub ) is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths.
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