Contains

• caterpillar

  A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or mo...

• grub

  A soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.

• caseworm

  Insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body.

• aphid lion

  Carnivorous larva of lacewing flies.

• wiggler

  Larva of a mosquito.

• bladder worm

  Encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm.

• dobson

  Large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait.

• nymph

  A larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly).

• ascidian tadpole

  Free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains...

• leptocephalus

  Slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes.

• bot

  Botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human.

• cercaria

  Tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage.

• tadpole

  A larval frog or toad.

• mealworm

  The larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae.

• strawworm

  Larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains.

• wireworm

  Wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants.

• ant lion

  The larva of any of several insects.