larva

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Those offspring hibernate over winter as larvae - caterpillars - in a communal silken web called a hibernaculum.

From BBC

Recently, Maike Kittelmann, a cell biologist at Oxford Brookes University, and her colleagues froze comb jelly larvae so that they could get a microscopic look at their nervous system.

From New York Times

Like most amphibians, it has gills and lives in the water as a larva before moving onto land as an air-breathing adult.

From Science Magazine

The fish have reached areas where the Brazil current flows south, speeding the spread of drifting larvae and putting vast new swaths of ecologically rich waters at risk.

From Science Magazine

His office is working to relocate some salamander larvae from parts of North Carolina to Southeastern Virginia in hope of replenishing the population.

From Washington Post