larva
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Ants even feed the beetles mouth-to-mouth, and the beetles munch on their adopted colony’s eggs and larvae.
From Los Angeles Times
Each mite larva measures about 500 micrometers, or half a millimeter.
From Science Daily
“The seasoned families will never live on apartment house terms, like larvae in a honeycomb,” wrote the muckraking journalist Will Irwin in 1927.
When the larvae hatch, they bore in to reach the cambium.
From Los Angeles Times
Adult Osedax typically live on whale bones, while their larvae travel long distances through ocean currents to colonize new whale falls, sometimes hundreds of kilometers away.
From Science Daily
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