larva

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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

This marks the first time such genetic activity has been studied in a living host using an approach based on fish larvae.

From Science Daily

Platts Mills recognized that many bites thought to be from chiggers in the eastern United States are actually from Lone Star tick larvae.

From Science Daily

To investigate reproduction and early life stages, the team set traps to capture drifting larvae at four sites off eastern Tenerife in September 2023, when spawning typically peaks each year.

From Science Daily

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

From BBC