Sentences with phrase «already laid eggs»

Her own garden included 150 species including two eight - year - old fragrant sumacs, some giant purple hyssops, and four varieties of milkweed plants, in which monarch butterflies had already laid eggs.

Her Crittenden Sq. garden featured, among other things, two eight - year - old fragrant sumacs, some giant purple hyssops, and four varieties of milkweed plants, in which monarch butterflies had already laid eggs.

By then, many of these fleas would have already laid eggs.

As this drives the evolution of resistance, Andrew Read at Pennsylvania State University in University Park decided to examine what happened if this selection pressure was removed by only killing elderly mosquitoes that had already laid eggs.

Not exact matches

I used an egg instead and tried to adjust everything to get the right consistency but as I cut the noddles and gently laid them in a bowl before cooking them, they were already starting to rip.

A team of researchers from the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, led by Sonja Bisch - Knaden, has investigated whether neural activity patterns linked to either feeding or egg - laying behavior can already be observed in the antennal lobe, which is the first processing level of scents in the insect brain.

That makes sense in light of their grisly methods: They have a habit of poking holes in all of the eggs they come across, so avoiding a nest they've already laid in is the easiest way to avoid accidentally killing their own chicks.

Once a hen lays an egg, the nutrients necessary for development are already inside the shell.

This is not a problem for the flea as it already has its exoskeleton but it is a problem for any eggs laid by the flea as the larvae inside will not have the chitin egg - tooth they need to break out of the shell.

Fleas lay about 40 eggs every day so even if you only see one or two adult fleas on your rabbit they've probably already laid hundreds of eggs.

A single flea lays up to 30 eggs a day and once you see a single flea, there's often already hundreds hiding on your couch, in your carpet and in the corners of your living room.

By the time we see a flea on our pets, there have already been eggs laid for a month or two, larvae hatched, pupae cocooning into the environment.