Its preference for tiny aquatic larvae makes it a suitable mosquito control agent.
The greenish water was teeming with a million tiny yellow larvae, each about three centimeters long.
Their eggs, which they like to deposit in rich soil, hatch into tiny white larvae.
Growth is rapid, on a diet of tiny larvae, worms and relatives.
Subsequent development produces a tiny larva, known as a planula.
Although their names make them sound like large predators, they are actually tiny insect larvae.
First as a tiny aquatic larva, which gradually undergoes metamorphosis.
Horticultural oil applications applied at the right time may help kill eggs or tiny larvae within the leaf tissue.
Millions of tiny larvae float helplessly in ocean currents until they reach fresh water.
These hatch into tiny smooth white larvae with four pairs of anal gills.