How to Use larva in a Sentence

larva

noun

• The larva of a butterfly is called a caterpillar.
• The egg hatches and the larva finds and invades the worm.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2019
• The wasp larva eats the moth egg from the inside, and a wasp hatches.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Feb. 2021
• The larvae attach to the shells or rocks and begin to grow.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2018
• The eggs hatch, and the new larvae burrow under the bark to start the cycle again.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 17 Jan. 2017
• Allen: Ticks have three life stages: larva, nymph, and adult.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The eggs hatch in seven to 10 days, and the larvae begin feeding on the turf.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 29 July 2017
• The surprise is that this larva can search for food at all.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2020
• But no one has yet cracked what food those larvae will eat.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Adults don’t often feed on Heuchera leaves, but their larvae love the roots.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 11 Apr. 2018
• Each year, flurries of tiny sea star larvae spend the first stage of their life floating in the open ocean.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• The hope here is that oyster larva will catch hold of the hard limestone rock and grow reefs there once again.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• This larva is between about two and two and a half inches.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 8 June 2022
• Their larva can grow in soil and be passed along in whatever grows in that soil.
  — Rebecca Kurson, Good Housekeeping, 17 Jan. 2018
• The butterflies also use the plant as a home and a nursery for their larvae.
  — Jacqueline L. Urgo, Philly.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• The silkworm is the larva of Bombyx mori, the domestic silk moth.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2021
• The flies hatch from larvae that burrow in the lake sediment for two or three years, Wills said.
  — Anna Bauman, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2019
• This larva belongs to tornaria, a kind of acorn worm that likes to live in plankton.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2010
• The tree’s failure to kill this larva was a strike against its future in the breeding program.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
• But there hadn’t been enough time for the medusa in the bowl of seawater to spawn, grow into a larva, and end up a polyp over the weekend.
  — Juli Berwald, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
• Loner bees leave a blob of pollen on the egg and wipe their hands of it, whereas social species dote on their larvae.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2014
• Named for its host plant, this native striped beetle can chew leaf holes as both an adult and a larva.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2023
• The collective movement of all the segments causes the larva to turn.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2019
• These larvae have hatched from a yellow-orange egg that was laid in a small cluster on a leaf.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 24 May 2017
• The plant produces the galls in reaction to the stings and the larvae develop within the gall tissues.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2018
• When the eggs hatch, larvae enter the leaves and begin to tunnel between the leaf surfaces.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• First, the wasp's tiny larvae hitch onto the spider's abdomen.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2019
• And those beetle larvae did draw in the Mojave bees, while the Oregon bees ignored them.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
• These beetles are named for the lights that run down the female’s larva-like body, said to look like lights from train windows at night.
  — National Geographic, 30 June 2018
• Truman and his team wanted to know, in great anatomical detail, how much of the brain of a larva persists in that of an adult fly.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024