The larvae used their mouth hooks - hooks with serrations, or teeth, on their surface.
When the wasp larvae hatch, they devour the stink bug eggs and kill them.
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Massospora cicadina, a fungus, lives in cicada larvae and passes between adults when they mate.
Once the eggs hatch, the larvae drop to the ground and burrow into the soil.
There, they harvest millions of wasps and tons of fungal spores to combat larvae and spittlebugs.
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These tiny red devils crawl into bee brood cells, where they feast on larvae.
By the time it is ready for consumption, a typical casu marzu contains thousands of larvae.
The pests that honey-bees bite include varroa mites as well as wax moth larvae.
Consequently, their eggs and larvae are presumably being bathed in a toxic soup of oil and dispersant.
These are important agricultural pests and often arrive in the country as hard-to-identify larvae, or eggs, on fruit.
The victims will be destroyed this winter, when the adult beetles have died and the larvae are dormant.
Bees infected by fly larvae move out of the hive into colder air.
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If a female chooses poorly and the tree dies in the next 17 years, her larvae will die too.
In 1946, a man chopping wood in Oregon noticed several timber beetle larvae chewing through the logs around him.
Bill Bobbitt, a county inspector, dips a ladle into the water and brings up half a dozen wriggling larvae.
Dr Papachristoforou recovered wax moth larvae that had been ejected from a hive, assuming the bees had killed them.
Instead, he said, the larvae had started wriggling again soon after being ejected.
They were filled with young larvae, or brood, meaning that the bees, usually fiercely maternal, had abandoned their young.
Which is odd, for if the larvae from the first hatchings are removed, the second eggs hatch just fine.
Wax moth larvae burrow through the comb in hives gradually destroying the cells where broods are raised and honey stored.
The doctors believe the allergy could more closely be related to bites that come from tick larvae, or baby ticks.
The reason is uncertain, but the most likely explanation is that more of its larvae than normal are reaching adulthood.
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Agricultural fertilisers washed off the land by rain can cause algal population booms, making more food available to the larvae.
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But are the arguments compelling enough to make you munch on a bag of crunchy scorpions or sprinkle your cereal with squidgy larvae?
"When the mites are actively developing, they do so in the brood cells where the bee larvae are growing, " she added.
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The crude oil killed all of the larvae whereas the nicotine-free stuff left a fifth of them alive after two days.
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The disease gets into the body when people drink contaminated water, which contains water fleas that have ingested Guinea worm larvae.
As soon as the worm makes contact with water, it releases its larvae into the water, and the cycle begins again.
And those few larvae that were lucky enough to live long enough to extend a probing foot too often found only silt.
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To stun pests, the 2-heptanone is injected at the site of the bite a bee inflicts on a mite, moth or larvae.
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