After feeding, they detach from their host and molt to nymphs on the ground, which then feed on larger hosts and molt to adults.

He is then directed by two nymphs to three gates.

Jupiter then gathered all the nymphs in Latium seeking their help in capturing Juturna, saying " Your sister is spiting herself by shunning her own advantage, an entanglement with the highest god.

After feeding on their hosts, the larvae drop to the ground and become nymphs, then mature into adults, which have 8 legs and are harmless to humans.

Her pregnant condition was discovered some months later while bathing with Diana and her fellow nymphs.

Here the nymphs came to converse with Dryope, who had become a priestess of the temple, but one day Apollo again returned in the form of a serpent and coiled around her while she stood by a spring.

" Though Zeus is often called Zeus Heraios ' Zeus, ( consort ) of Hera ', Homer's treatment of Hera is less than respectful, and in late anecdotal versions of the myths ( see below ) she appeared to spend most of her time plotting revenge on the nymphs seduced by her Consort, for Hera upheld all the old right rules of Hellene society and sorority.

Her mother Ceres, also known as Demeter, the goddess of agriculture or of the Earth, went looking for her in vain to every corner of the earth, but was not able to find anything but a small belt that was floating upon a little lake ( made with the tears of the nymphs ).

Once, it is said, when pursued by him she fled to Letrini in Elis, and here she covered her face and those of her companions ( nymphs ) with mud, so that Alpheius could not discover or distinguish her, and was obliged to return.

As he mastered each of the local nymphs one by one, Olympic Zeus pursued Taygete, who invoked her protectress Artemis.

They received names Melaina (" the Black "), Kleodora (" Famed for her Gift "), and Daphnis (" Laurel "); however, in the page in the Corycian nymphs, the third sister is listed as Corycia.

If the mother dies before the nymphs are ready to leave, the nymphs may eat her.

She was nursed by two other nymphs Inebriation and Ignorance, her faithful companions include Philautia ( self-love ), Kolakia ( flattery ), Lethe ( oblivion ), Misoponia ( laziness ), Hedone ( pleasure ), Anoia ( madness ), Tryphe ( wantonness ) and two gods Komos ( intemperance ) and Eegretos Hypnos ( dead sleep ).

" One of the informed nymphs, Lara, could not hold her tongue, and warns Juturna to flee.

Most ancient versions depicted the dragon as the expression of a god's wrath: in Andromeda's case, because her mother Cassiopeia had compared her beauty to that of the sea nymphs, and in Hesione's, because her father had reneged on a bargain with Poseidon.

Because of her, Melissa became the name of all the nymphs who cared for the patriarch god as a baby.

In fact, Pleione may have been numbered amongst the Epimelides ( nymphs of meadows and pastures ) and presided over the multiplication of the animals, as her name means " to increase in number ".

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

Pursued by the amorous Greek god Pan, she ran to a river's edge and asked for assistance from the river nymphs.

Proserpina was in Sicily, at the Pergusa Lake near Enna, where she was playing with some nymphs and collecting flowers, when Pluto came out from the volcano Etna with four black horses named Orphnaeus, Aethon, Nycteus and Alastor.

In the story of Venulus coming back from Apulia too we see the religious connotation of the wild olive: the king discovers one into which a local shepherd had been had been turned for failing to respect some nymphs he had come across in a nearby cavern, apparently Venilia, as she was the deity associated with the magic virtues of such tree.

The nymphs look similar to their parents, only smaller, and will nest under their mother and she will continue to protect them until their second molt in about July.

More in the spirit of Garros is the charming trilingual Salut composed by the famous du Bartas in honor of a visit of Marguerite de Valois to Nérac ( 1579 ): three nymphs dispute as to whether she should be welcomed in Latin, French, or Gascon, and the last, of course, wins the day.

* Ianthe, one of the 3, 000 sons and daughters of the Titan Oceanus and Tethys, the Oceanids mentioned in homeric hymn to Demeter, who was one of the nymphs with the Goddess of Spring, Persephone when she was captured by Hades, the God of the Underworld.

Her name suggests that she was a " willow-nymph ", just as there were oak-tree nymphs and ash-nymphs ( Dryads and Meliae ).

His third marriage was to Deianira, for whom he had to fight the river god Achelous ( upon Achelous ' death, Heracles removed one of his horns and gave it to some nymphs who turned it into the cornucopia.

As the Augustan poet Vergil described it, " He gathered together the unruly race " of fauns and nymphs " scattered over mountain heights, and gave them laws ….

This is because of the large number of nymphs produced from each egg case, the short period between birth and sexual maturity, and their ability to easily hide due to their small size.

In the other hemisphere it is growing colder and nymphs, those who stayed alive through the summer, are being brought into nests for quickening and more growing ''.

In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.

As a follower of Artemis, Callisto, who Hesiod said was the daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, took a vow to remain a virgin, as did all the nymphs of Artemis.

Calypso ( mythology ) is the name of one of the Nereids ( sea nymphs ) in Greek mythology.

The plot deals with Sylvia, one of Diana's nymphs and sworn to chastity, and Diana's assault on Sylvia's affections for the shepherd Amyntas.

Words for the nymphs of the Greek and Roman mythos were translated by Anglo-Saxon scholars with ælf and variants on it.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

In Mysia, Hylas was kidnapped by the nymphs of a local spring.

Heracles, heartbroken, searched for a long time but Hylas had fallen in love with the nymphs and never showed up again.

The nymphs of the stream where Hylas was collecting were attracted to his good looks, and pulled him into the stream.

In hemimetabolous insects, immature stages are called nymphs.

The differences between nymphs in different instars are small, often just differences in body proportions and the number of segments, although external wing buds will form in later instars.

In a late appearance, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climacteric battle of Issus ( 333 BC ), and resorted to prayers, " calling on Thetis, Nereus and the Nereids, nymphs of the sea, and invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves.

) are sea nymphs ( female spirits of sea waters ), the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris, sisters to Nerites.

In modern Greek folklore, the term " nereid " (, neráïda ) has come to be used of all nymphs, or fairies, or mermaids, not merely nymphs of the sea.