These will then take several days in the environment to mature to an infective stage.
This is the infective stage for the mammalian host.
Under ideal summer conditions, eggs can mature to the infective stage after two weeks outside of a host.
The plerocercoid larvae are the infective stage for the definitive host (including humans).
They grow in one host but reproduce by infective stages outside of this host.
In about 5-7 weeks, the larvae develop into the infective stage within the egg envelope in the soil.
These eggs require about a week to reach in the infective stage, and do not hatch until ingested by the host.
The young female is the infective stage of citrus nematode.
It may also be equivalent to the infective stage of parasitic nematode larvae.
Under optimal conditions, development from the egg to infective stage occurs in 1-2 weeks.
