Student Project Figures Figure 5 ​Figure 4: Life cycle of Bugula neritina. 1 Mature adult B. neritina with embryos in ovicell chambers. 2 Lecithotrophic larvae are released from ovicells, swimming in the water column for a short period of time. 3–6 Larval settlement, attachment, and metamorphose into the ancestrula. 7 Asexual budding of the ancestrula into daughter zooids forming a young colony, continued budding of zooids form the mature colony. Adapted from Sharp et al., 2007. Figure 5