7 sentences with 'worm'
Example sentences and phrases with the word worm and other words derived from it.
• « Some of the moths and moth moths, in their worm stage, are pests that devastate pine forests, fruit orchards, vegetable fields and other human farms, as the case may be. Like the good insects they are, they are increasingly resistant to pesticides, which in turn are becoming more of a threat to ecosystems and people than to pests. »
• « -First we bait the hook. -I take out a worm and put it on. Then we cast it and wait for the fish. Look, hold the rod. -She does it reluctantly. A couple of minutes go by and the float starts to dance - You've caught one! »
• « Stenurus is a worm that lives in the auditory cavities of cetaceans and it is precisely the middle and inner ear where a very important part of the orientation system of these animals is located. The parasite would then cause the defective echo reception. »
• « As the worms grow, very long, thin glandular tubes develop in their bodies, which gradually fill with a sticky liquid. The worm looks for a suitable place to make a cocoon, and begins to spin. »
• « But the worm is destined to die; after two or three weeks a butterfly emerges from the cocoon and breaks the threads. Before that happens, the cocoons must be immersed in boiling water. »
• « The information needed to copy and operate a bacterium fits on a strip of DNA, a short programme of a few hundred thousand instructions. But the operation of a worm no longer fits in genes and requires a rudimentary nervous system, a neural network. »
• « More than sixteen million tonnes of cotton are produced worldwide each year. But in the same period, about five million tonnes are lost to the voracious appetite of a worm: the Eliotis Cia larva, or cotton bollworm. »