instar

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• I have at least one adult instar... of the Judas breed at this location.

  Mimic 2 (2001)

• Starting out cream-colored (left), the third instar puts on additional weight and darkens (right).

  Academic text (2003)

• This thing's already metamorphed into a new instar.

  Mimic 2 (2001)

• At the second instar, it is 0.8 inches long and has developed more prominent spines.

  Academic text (2006)

• In about a week, the eggs hatch and develop into third-instar larvae.

  Academic text (1994)

• There the larva passes through three more "instars," or developmental stages, growing larger all the while.

  Academic text (2003)

• In Panama, Colwell and I collected more than fifty third-instar larvae, and he took them back with him to his lab in Canada.

  Academic text (2003)

• "To effectively manage grasshoppers, you usually have to treat them by the fourth or fifth instar, before they can cause significant forage damage or lay eggs," Fisher says.

  Academic text (1996)

• Like other arthropods, such as insects and crustaceans, trilobites had a rigid exoskeleton and grew by molting in stages, or instars, at periodic intervals throughout their lives.

  Academic text (1992)

• After molting, the caterpillar enters the second instar stage, where it starts to grow noticeably.

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