The young feed on mosquito wigglers and similar life in ponds and streams while the adults dart here and there over ponds, fields or lawn catching mosquitoes and other winged insects.
When the wigglers hatch they swim about in the water and feed upon decaying material and microscopic water plants.
Ponds can be freed of the wigglers by introducing fish or by using a small amount of coal oil on the surface.
The majority of the wigglers found in rain barrels are of our common forms.
Our common wigglers always hang head downward in the water while those of the malarial mosquitoes rest near the surface of the water with their bodies parallel to it.
The wigglers have a breathing tube which is thrust out above the water when fresh air is needed and if there is a thin film of oil on the water this is prevented.
The process by which these wigglers hatch out into mosquitoes is an interesting one, and will bear the closest study, as well as scientifically pay for watching the operation.
Leaving him to his work, I lost no time in taking the hint, and my box was soon criss-crossed with small twigs, and my remaining wigglers soon found themselves at home and littered my box with their chip pellets.
All the young Wigglers hung around to see what was going on, and pushed each other aside to get the best places.
Then there had been a few more days and nights when the tiny Wigglers hung head downward in the water, and all one could see by looking across the barrel was the tips of their breathing tubes.
The Dragon-Flies were the worst, for they were the hungriest, and they were so much smaller that sometimes the Wigglers didn't see them coming.
Because they used different breathing-tubes, those Wigglers who had moulted or cast their skins several times now floated in the water with their heads just below the surface and their tails down.
This year the Oldest Brother had put on so many airs that nobody liked it at all, and several of the Wigglers had been heard to say that they couldn't bear the sight of him.
Observe the wigglers (hatched in about a day); the divisions of the body of the wigglers; position of the wigglers when at rest.
The wigglersare the food on which some young fishes live.
A supply of wigglers may be kept in the permanent aquarium where they serve as food for the other insects.
By two o'clock in the afternoon there may be from two to four hundred lively little wigglers in the water.
Some time is spent by the wigglers in eating and growing before they curl up into pupae.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wigglers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
