Wood Roaches for Dinner Again? The Baby Red-Cockaded Woodpecker's Diet (Spanish)

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Glossary

arthropod
(är thrə päd): Any of a phylum of invertebrate animals (such as insects, arachnids, and crustaceans) having a segmented body, jointed limbs, and a shell of chitin that is shed periodically.
bole
(bōl): Tree trunk.
cavity
(ka vǝ tē): An unfilled space within a mass, especially a hollowed-out space.
larva
(lär ve): (plural “larvae”) The immature, wingless, and often wormlike feeding form that hatches from the egg of many insects.
nestling
(nest liŋ): A young bird that has not left the nest.
prey
(prā): An animal taken by a predator as food.
pupa
(pyü pə): (plural “pupae”) A stage of an insect (as a bee, moth, or beetle) having complete metamorphosis that occurs between the larva and the adult, is usually enclosed in a cocoon or case, and goes through changes inside by which structures of the larva are replaced by those of the adult.
specimen
(spes (ǝ) mǝn): A part or a single thing that shows what the whole thing or group is like.