noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
insect larvae (= young insects with soft bodies and no wings )
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Fish love food such as worms and insect larvae.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
infective
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First there are infective larvae which developed during the previous grazing season and have survived on pasture over winter.
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Although the infective larvae can penetrate the skin, the infection rarely matures and there is no evidence as yet of transmammary infection.
■ NOUN
insect
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Unprotected by a shell, they are easy meat for insect larvae and flatworms.
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Both fish prefer live foods, such as worms, insect larvae and small fish.
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Instead they have to consume foods such as shrimps, snails, algae and insect larvae .
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In soft-bodied insect larvae , where the appendages are reduced or absent, locomotion occurs through quite different physical mechanisms.
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In a planted pond the fish will find plenty of algae and insect larvae on which they can feed in order to survive.
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Diet in the wild consists of snails, crustaceans and insect larvae .
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For example, we might imagine a population of unpalatable, but cryptic, insect larvae .
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Although their names make them sound like large predators, they are actually tiny insect larvae .
mosquito
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Live, disinfected Daphnia and mosquito larvae are popular.
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The same was true for mealworm larvae , a species of butterfly, mosquito larvae, and milkweed-bug nymphs.
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Flake is often refused and live foods such as Tubifex, Mosquito larvae , small earthworms, are needed to tempt them.
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However, control by killing the mosquito larvae suffers from two main deficiencies.
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Gnat and Mosquito larvae , including Bloodworms, can not be bred, as they are the young stages of flying insects.
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They eat Tubifex, Daphnia, and mosquito larvae .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At higher temperatures, development is faster and the larvae are hyperactive, thus depleting their lipid reserves.
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Escamoles are the larva and pupa stage of the red ant.
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Growth is rapid, on a diet of tiny larvae, worms and relatives.
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The eggs sit all winter, but don't turn to larvae until there's a rain.
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The sea squirt larva is not the only filter-feeder with such a significant rod in its back.
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There are three stages - larva , nymph and adult - each of which quite often feeds off a different host.
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There will be larvae too, but these are small and go through the sieve.
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This, at least, is some suggestion of a backbone, but the larva does not keep it for very long.