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larva

noun as in caterpillar

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noun as in maggot

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When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.

The entire larva is black and the segments of the body possess numerous tubercles bearing setae.

As soon as it hatches the larva attacks the cricket in the belly at the chosen spot where the egg has been layed.

The larva of the hemerolicus feeds also on the aphides, and deposits its eggs on the leaves of such plants as are beset with them.

What a shelter for the larva of this Pompilus: the warm retreat and downy hammock of the Segestria!

No doubt the food for her family, the larva of which I possess the empty skin, now an unrecognizable shred.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to larva, such as: butterfly, canker, moth, and woolly bear.

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