Meanings of larva stage in English

If this is correct, a short-lived larva stage must, instead of causing small cocoons, produce just the contrary effect.

John McLoughlin of Coillte says the only damage they might do here would be at the larva stage in a nursery of young trees.

Although most of the transcripts were not infective larva -specific, the expression of respiration related proteins was most actively transcribed in the infective larva stage.