### animal | larva:

Tadpole larvae
* Most tadpole larvae have features
  - many features
* Some tadpole larvae have notochords.

### animal | larva | tadpole:

Bullfrog tadpole
* Most bullfrog tadpoles avoid predators.
* experience metamorphosis.
* reach length.

### animal | larva | tadpole:

Small tadpole
* Most small tadpoles eat flake food
* hatch out after two to three weeks.
+ Common toad, Behaviour, Reproduction: Toads
  * The strings of eggs absorb water and swell in size. Small tadpoles hatch out after two to three weeks. At first they hold onto the remains of the strings and feed on the jelly. They later attach themselves to the underside of the leaves of water weed before becoming free swimming. They are a darker colour, being blackish above and dark grey below. They can be told apart from the tadpoles of other species by the fact that the mouth is the same width as the space between the eyes, and this is twice as large as the distance between the nostrils. Over a few weeks their legs develop and their tail slowly gets reabsorbed.

Toad tadpole
* compete for food.
* feed on microorganisms.

Young tadpole
* feed by scraping algae off water weeds.
* have their gills exposed.

Tiny larvae
* feed largely on vegetable matter in the soil during the remainder of the first season.
* work their way into opening leaf buds to feed.

Wasp larvae
* Most wasp larvae eat prey.
* Some wasp larvae feed on fly pupas
  - tarantulas

Weevil larvae
* Some weevil larvae construct chambers.
* are small and hard to see.

### animal | larva:

Wireworm
* Some wireworms are almost flat.
* are a major pest to potatoes
  - an unpredictable pest that can severely damage corn stands
  - beetle larva that are found in soil where they feed on roots
  - click beetle larvae
* are difficult to control with available insecticides
  - detect and control
  - elateriform larvae
  - especially destructive to corn, but all the small grains are also attacked
  - larvae of a group of beetles commonly called click beetles
  - larvas
  - occasionally a concern to farmers planting corn
  - one of the most difficult insects to detect and one of the hardest to control
  - slender, shiny, cream colored to brown larvae about one-half inch long
* are the larvae of beetles commonly called skipjacks, snapping beetles or click beetles
  - the click beetle
  - larval forms of click beetles
* are very shiny garden pests
  - thin, yellow, pink or orangish worms that feed on potatoes
* can be destructive to corn, potatoes, wheat, barley and onions in Manitoba
  - cause damage to potatoes and other crops
  - damage corn, resulting in stand loss during the seedling stage
  - readily move around in the soil and can avoid the wet areas
* continue to cause low levels of damage in most Georgia peanut fields.
* damage corn by feeding on germinating seeds and the root system
  - in several ways
  - newly set tobacco plants by boring into and tunneling in the stalks
* do most of their damage in the early spring when they are near the soil surface.
* feed on roots, are light to medium brown in color and have hard, almost shell-like body
  - seed and underground plant parts
  - seeds and roots, producing weak plants
  - seeds, roots, and stems, producing weak plants
* feed on the roots of many newly planted crops such as beans, corn, potatoes, etc
  - or underground stems of tobacco plants
* feeding on the seed piece or stem also opens tubers to decay and rot organisms.
* have chewing mouth parts and feed entirely underground.
* larvae cause the greatest feeding damage during their second and third years.
* occur throughout the agricultural regions of southern Manitoba.
* tunnel in potato stems, roots and tubers and can do a great deal of damage.