Article: Loricifera

Article: HUMANITY REMAINS IN ITS LARVAL STAGE
Roanoke Times & World News;  May 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... After all, a butterfly is an "old" caterpillar. In the larval stage, these creatures do little but eat. Some invasive species ... pollinate and beautify more than deplete, able to die to the old larval stage and soar! Liza Field's column runs every other Saturday ...

Article: Those white grubs are the larval stage of various ...
The Boston Globe;  May 3, 1998 ;     365 words ... ... responsible for so much homeowner anxiety this year are the larval stage of several "scarab" beetles, the most familiar of which ... Japanese beetle. The sod webworm, on the other hand, is the larval stage (a caterpillar, not a grub) of a moth, not a beetle ...

Article: NEW RESEARCH FINDS SURVEYS OF LARVAL-STAGE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... dwelling mantis shrimp (stomatopods), is the first to compare larval stage organisms to adults. Through DNA barcoding - a new method ... Barber, the results suggest that examining marine life in the larval stage offers a new and highly effective way to estimate biodiversity ...

Article: Going From Larval Stage to Success; Firms Emerge ...
The Washington Post;  August 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ...This summer, Nicholas Barber, a candidate for a master's degree in business administration, is spending his 10-week internship with a bunch of caterpillars. Chesapeake PERL Inc., a company in the University of Maryland's incubator program, hired Barber because of his biology background. He is

Article: THIN SKIN, SLOW-GROWING GILLS PROTECT LARVAL STAGE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign issued the following news release: Very thin but hardy, unblemished skin and slow developing gills appear to be keys to survival for newly hatched Antarctic notothenioids, a group of fish whose adults thrive in icy waters because of antifreeze proteins

Article: Health workers search for West Nile virus hot spots/ County wants ...
The Gazette;  May 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Hunting season for Culex tarsalis officially opens May 19 in El Paso County. County health workers armed with dippers will stalk the pesky bugger in ponds, irrigation ditches and anywhere else there might be stagnant water. They already have their eye on several sites, including the Pinello Ranch

Article: New phylum found! (Loricifera)
Popular Science;  February 1, 1984 ;     700+ words ... ... species of living animals. The new phylum has been named Loricifera by its discoverer, Dr. Reinhart Kristensen, a postdoctoral ... serves as a mouth and can be retracted into the body. The larval stage has a set of two "tails" attached to ball-and-socket ...