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Yang Jie / Zhang Xiguang Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud.
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Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2024
The Government Highline Canal, where the first larva was found, provides irrigation water to more than 23,000 acres of farmland in the Grand Valley.
—Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 18 July 2024
In the game, one player is the ant and wasp, the other player is the beetle larva and adult.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
All but one hatch early and cruise the host’s body, killing competing parasites so that the last larva to hatch has a habitat all to itself.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2024
The Government Highline Canal, where the first larva was found, provides irrigation water to more than 23,000 acres of farmland in the Grand Valley.
—Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 18 July 2024
In the game, one player is the ant and wasp, the other player is the beetle larva and adult.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
All but one hatch early and cruise the host’s body, killing competing parasites so that the last larva to hatch has a habitat all to itself.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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“Larva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larva. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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