larvas

Caterpillars and maggots

Larvas is a nonstandard plural of larva, the immature form of an insect or other creature that undergoes metamorphosis.

The standard plural is larvae, from Latin.

Larvas appears in informal writing and speech: The larvas were crawling all over the rotting fruit.

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developmental stage

larvasadults

Fully mature individuals

imagos · butterflies · moths · beetles · flies

Phrases
Family

larva, larvae, larval, larvicide

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