Sitaris-larvæ in the corridors, or pick up only a number which will not compare with that carried by the males. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Lastly, we have a final proof of the passive condition of the Sitaris-larvæ on the body of the Anthophoræ in the fact that the Bees do not appear to be in any way incommoded by their presence, since we do not see them trying to rid themselves of the grubs. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
The males of the Osmia make their appearance even before those of the Anthophora and at so early a season that the young Sitaris-larvæ are perhaps not yet aroused by the instinctive impulse which urges them to activity. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
At the time of my observations, a comparatively tiny proportion of the starving legion was waiting on the flowers; the others were still wandering on the ground, where the Anthophoræ very rarely alight; and yet I detected the presence of several Meloe-larvæ in the thoracic down of nearly all the Anthophoræ which I caught and examined. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Some were without Sitaris-larvæ; others, more numerous, had two, three, four, five or more among the hairs of their thorax. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
It seems to me, therefore, that it is only on the composite flowers that the Meloe-larvæ await the Bees 'arrival. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Nevertheless it is upon the females that the Sitaris-larvæ must finally establish themselves, for the males upon whom they now are cannot introduce them into the cells, since they take no part in the building or provisioning. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
The tiny creatures, when brought into contact with Anthophora-larvæ or - nymphs, paid no attention whatever to their prey; others, placed near cells which were open and full of honey, did not enter them, or at most ventured to the edge of the orifice; others, lastly, put inside the cell, on the dry wall or on the surface of the honey, came out again immediately or else got stuck and died. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
I had no Meloe-larvæ at my disposal and could not obtain any save by searching for them in the Bees 'fleece, the Anthophora-eggs were all discovered to have hatched in the cells which I brought back from my expedition, when I was at last able to find some. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Meloe-larvæ, motionless in the silky down of the thorax. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
And I did, in fact, at a later date, find some Meloe-larvæ on the body of a big Beetle, the Golden ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
When April came, my Sitaris-larvæ began, as usual, to bestir themselves. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
On these dry corpses, fit at most for gnawing, but certainly containing nothing to suck, the Sitaris-larvæ took up their customary position and there remained motionless as on the living insect. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
There is therefore, at a given moment, a transfer of Sitaris-larvæ from the male Anthophoræ to the females; and this transfer is, beyond a doubt, effected during the union of the sexes. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
From what I have said of the Sitaris-larvæ, it is plain that the Meloe-larvæ perched, like the former, on the back of a Bee, have but one aim: to get themselves conveyed by this Bee to the victualled cells. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
The young Meloe-larvæ established in the down of the Anthophoræ or in that of the Melecta - and the Coelioxys-bees, their parasites, had adopted an infallible means of sooner or later reaching the desired cell. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
A few strokes of the net, aimed, beyond the limits of the swarm, at the Anthophoræ on their way to the harvest or returning, soon informed me that the Sitaris-larvæ are perched on the thorax, as I expected, occupying the same position as on the males. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
But the Meloe-larvæ, more greatly favoured, are able to set off immediately in search of the ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
The first has Sitaris-larvæ on her thorax; so has the second; the third and fourth likewise; and so on, as far as I care to pursue the examination. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
As in the Sitaris-larvæ, the last pair of stigmata, that of the eighth segment of the abdomen, is less developed than the rest. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
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[Omaid] Larvs [Da] [Cok] ❋ Gemmel (2003)
"i totally larve your [shirt]"
"im in larve [with him]"
"she told [the boy] she larved him" ❋ Kellzbellz (2008)
-East london-
Presenter: What do you think of [eastenders]?
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We larve it we larve it larve it larve it larve it! ❋ Frankers (2006)
I [have to] stop [larving].
Do you want to larve [with me]? ❋ Beautiful Larva (2010)
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