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Toggle Life cycle subsection. 1.1 Larva. 1.2 Pupa. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Its larva is known as the monkey slug.
Phobetron hipparchia, the monkey slug, is a moth of the family Limacodidae. It is found in Mexico , Panama , Ecuador , Colombia , Venezuela , the Guianas , Brazil and Argentina . [ 2 ]
Laevicaulis alte is a round, dark-coloured slug with no shell, 7 or 8 cm (2.8 or 3.1 in) long. Its skin is slightly tuberculated. The central keel is beige in colour.. This slug has a unique, very narrow foot; juvenile specimens have a foot 1 mm (0.039 in) wide and adult specimens have a foot that is only 4 or 5 mm (0.16 or 0.20 in) wide.
Slug mites are a one-host mite. It is possible for a mite to be born, live, and die on a single host. Mites have two sexes. Their five-stage life cycle is as follows: Females lay eggs in the host lung, and then the eggs hatch in 8–12 days as six-legged larva in the lungs of hosts and undergo three nymph stages.
A dragonfly in its radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult.. In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in ...
The Veronicellidae, also known by their common name the leatherleaf slugs, are a family of pulmonate terrestrial slugs. The herbivorous molluscs occur mainly in the tropical and subtropical areas of America, Asia and Africa. They act as intermediate hosts of the rat lung worm Angiostrongylus costaricensis, and act as a vector for other human ...
The main aspects of the life cycle of gastropods include: Egg laying and the eggs of gastropods; The embryonic development of gastropods; The larvae or larval stadium: some gastropods may be trochophore and/or veliger; Estivation and hibernation (each of these are present in some gastropods only) The growth of gastropods
The bacterium Moraxella osloensis is a mutualistic symbiont of the slug-parasitic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita. [13] In nature, Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita vectors Moraxella osloensis into the shell cavity of the slug host Deroceras reticulatum in which the bacteria multiply and kill the slug.