Sentences with phrase «eggs after mating»

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After mating, the female stashes sperm from several males in a specialized organ called a spermatheca before using some of the stored sperm to fertilize her eggs.

A so - called monogyne queen establishes a colony after going off on her mating flight, nourishing her eggs with her own fat reserves, without worker help, until they hatch and become workers themselves.

That work revealed that after mating, seminal fluid proteins passed from males to females led to changes in gene expression in females and led females to increase egg production, reduce feeding and decrease their likelihood to mate again.

After they mate, the female lays eggs and protects them.

The females» loss of interest after a single mating suggests that if they could be fooled into pairing with mutant males — laboratory - reared to generate sterile offspring — they might duck out of the mating game for several egg cycles, or perhaps permanently.

Among lingcod, Bishop explained, the male not only chooses the nesting area — which he uses to help attract a mate — but also guards the nest after the female deposits her eggs there.

«Till death do us part» — for marine bristle worms, these words are invariably true: Shortly after mating, the parent worms die, leaving thousands of newly fertilized eggs to develop in the water.

A female white - spotted frog responds to the mating call by entering into the bamboo section to lay her eggs on the inner walls of the section, leaving after the male frog has fertilised the eggs.

After female wasps mate, they fight each other to establish their rank: The higher it is, the more egg laying and the less work they have to do.

After mating, adult females travel to the distal colon to deposit eggs, which are then excreted in feces and become infective 5 - 8 days later.

One day after mating, eggs were transferred to a Petri dish, where they were treated with lye diluted to 0.5 % in water for 90 s. Then, they were washed 3 times for 3 min with water, and maintained for 24 h at 28.5 °C.

Hours to a few days after mating, the female P. carolinus lays around 50 eggs in the soil.

After mating, the female burrows into the skin, depositing 3 to 4 eggs in the tunnel behind her.

Ovulation will usually occur within 20 to 50 hours after mating, and the eggs are viable (capable of being fertilized) for approximately one day.

Offspring are only produced after flea eggs are fertilized through successful mating.

An adult flea mates shortly after emergence and begins laying eggs within 36 hours.

The first big change I noticed was how much better the graphics looked, with this being the first Halo game brought out specifically for the Xbox One and (possibly) PC, rather than the rest which originated on the 360 etc, within the 9 hour sitting of playing through the campaign in a co-op game I did notice a few glitches, one of my team mates fell through the map, it randomly decided to teleport us forward past 2 vehicles when we were searching a map for Easter eggs but other than that the game was flawless, the 13 hour download time was worth the wait (I'm assuming this was due to the Microsoft servers, I started downloading at 18:30 on the 26th and when I checked my Xbox at 07:40 am the following morning it was at 93 percent, my connection is 152mbps so as you can imagine I was rather annoyed and surprised how long it had taken, after playing the game for all of 30 minutes I had completely forgotten about the length of time this had taken, I'll let 343 off with it as they have done such a good job with Halo 5.

After they first feast on your dog's blood, they mate and produce eggs (one female can make up to 2,000 eggs during her life!)