With grubs and grub-like creatures the time is usually three weeks, and in the oviparous insects as a rule four.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

In a small glass cage set upon a pedestal of stone were several writhing, grub-like things that palpitated disgustingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cosmic Engineer]

From these eggs grub-like larvae hatch which bore into the terminal and the leaf bases, greatly dwarfing the terminal growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference

In some cases the grubs may be able to produce light though as a rule the luminous grub-like creature or glow-worm is a wingless adult firefly.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference

A peculiarity of this reptile is the fleshy filament, grub-like in appearance, which it has in its mouth and which acts as a bait, attracting fish within the reach of its powerful jaws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

There, extracted grub-like and blinking from my bedroom and those bulging plywood shelves, I began the forced invention of a less Lovecraftian persona – based in large part on a chance literary discovery a year or so before.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Gibson biography] Reference

These grub-like lives, undignified even by passion, -- these life-long quenchings of the spark divine. -- why dost Thou suffer them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference

About: kexec-loader is a Linux-based bootloader that aims to fit on a floppy and have a grub-like interface and configuration system.    From Wordnik.com.  [freshmeat.net Releases] Reference

During the day, you can go to the back counter and order up some (relatively) healthy grub-like ostrich burgers, bison chili or a vegetable sandwich on sprouted bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Examiner California Headlines] Reference

It's not even out here until next week, but already Neil Blomkamp's tale of an alternative timeline in which grub-like bipedal aliens arrived in South Africa in the early 80s District 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Film | guardian.co.uk] Reference

It is not surprising, therefore, that many beetles, even when adult, should live as their larvae do; since the acquirement of complete metamorphosis they have become modified towards the larval condition, and an extreme case of such modification is afforded by the wingless grub-like female Glow-worm (Lampyris).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference

What is the cause that determines that one individual in a brood of Stylops, for example (Fig. 184, male; Fig. 185, grub-like female in the body of its host), shall be but a grub, living as a parasite in the body of its host, while its fellow shall be winged and as free in its actions as the most highly organized insect?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

These grub-like lives, undignified even by passion, ” these life-long quenchings of the spark divine. ” why dost Thou suffer them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli]