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It's to kill them when they're still in the water as larvae.
In that pool of water, these larvae are concentrated.
So the problem that we face with this is that, throughout the landscape, all these pools of water with the larvae, they are scattered all over the place, which makes it very hard for an inspector like this to actually find all these breeding sites and treat them with insecticides.
And so we set up another crazy experiment, because we collected the smell of these larvae, put it on pieces of cloth, and then did something very remarkable.
Here we have a bar with four holes and we put the smell of these larvae in the left hole.
She feeds the larvae by regurgitating from her fat reserves.
They bring it back and feed it to the larvae.
And it seems appropriate to start at the end, because this is a waste product that comes out of other animals, but it still contains nutrients and there are sufficient nutrients in there for dung beetles basically to make a living, and so dung beetles eat dung, and their larvae are also dung-feeders.
This cricket swallowed the larvae of a Gordian worm, or horsehair worm.
And what they're doing is very interesting: they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots, the grubs, the larvae of flies.
And the reason he's waited three days is because he knows that on the fourth day or the fifth day, those larvae will hatch and he'll have a huge fly problem.
They are standing dead trees because of the larvae of the beetle.
They only eat milkweed as larvae.
This is a bee egg as it hatches into a larva, and those newly hatched larvae swim around their cells feeding on this white goo that nurse bees secrete for them.
And even the Romans found beetle larvae to be scrumptious.
The yellow beetle larvae are native to America and easy to farm.
It's full of untouched food stores and a brood of unborn larvae, suggesting that the adults vacated without waiting for them to hatch.
Thankfully, after about 20 days, these larvae grow into the first generation of workers, ready to forage for food and sustain their shrunken queen.
And so, if you wanted to control mosquito larvae, it can actually be quite difficult to get them.
They feed on mosquito larvae.
They control mosquito larvae, among other things.
The larvae have to develop very quickly.
Already, commercial oyster larvae are dying at large scales in some places.
If it's not, it's certainly affecting their eggs and larvae, I would certainly think.
Similarly, a virus that infects gypsy moth larvae prompts them to climb en masse to the tops of trees to die.
Oil-contaminated birds and beaches make appalling pictures, whereas dead fish and shrimp larvae go unnoticed by cameras.
Liquid larvicides can be applied directly to water using backpack sprayers, and introducing fish into ponds, particularly in residential areas, can also help to eliminate larvae.