mosquito larva
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mosquito
noun[C]
uk/məˈskiː.təʊ/us/məˈskiː.t̬oʊ/
a small flying insect that bites people and animals and sucks ...
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larva
noun[C]
uk/ˈlɑː.və/us/ˈlɑːr.və/
a form of an insect or an animal such as a frog that has left its egg but has not yet developed into a pupa or adult insect ...
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(Definition ofmosquitoandlarvafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In bracts with greater quantities of water the typical inhabitants aremosquitolarva.
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The pirate perch is known to consume livemosquitolarva, amphipods, glass shrimp, meal worms, small fish, dragonfly and stonefly larvae, and earthworms.
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The dytiscids showed no other differences in preference for small and large mosquito larvae.
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Therefore, the size of dytiscid species that colonize a wetland is important for the magnitude of their 'natural control' of mosquito larvae.
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The highest density of anopheline mosquito larvae was found amongst dense vegetation, and only rarely in the free water surface.
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Discriminant analysis was used to identify associations between land surface classes and the presence or absence of the different species of mosquito larvae.
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No refugium was available for the mosquito larvae.
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Since some dytiscid species can efficiently decrease populations of mosquito larvae, they are probably important in the natural control of these dipterans.
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Nonetheless, there is little evidence that populations of mosquito larvae in the field are actually limited by predation.
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Instead, their importance in the natural control of mosquito larvae is in focus in this study.
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Twenty individuals of each prey type and each size class (in all, 40 mosquito larvae and 40 water fleas) were added to the aquarium.
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They do not object to feeding on those mosquito larvae whose bodies are very hairy.
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In this position they can detect disturbances in the surface film of the water made by mosquito larvae or pupae coming up to breathe.
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The mosquito larvae were assigned to size classes, and the mid value from each class was used.
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At each collection site, dipping was delayed for 3 min to let the mosquito larvae surface after the disturbance of the water.
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The sparse data available suggest that rotifers, copepods and mosquito larvae may be important predators of protozoa.
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Efforts to decreasemosquitolarvaby decreasing the availability of open water in which they develop or by adding substances to decrease their development is effective in some locations.
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The response to the different treatments was measured as changes in population levels of mosquito larvae.
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What do dytiscids really eat and to what extent do they feed on mosquito larvae?
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