Sentences with phrase «eggs during mating»

Two experiments were carried out to assess if males with a longer processus were either more likely to mate with a female, or more likely to fertilise a female's eggs during mating.

Not exact matches

We estimate that a female who mates 2 - 3 times may build 30 - 40 percent of the eggs she lays from proteins the male transfers during copulation.

But in difficult living conditions — during food shortages or heat waves, for instance — they switch to a different type of procreation: they mate and lay dormant eggs.

With the arrival of warm weather in the spring, mature ticks — which have been dormant during the colder months — become active again and resume their quest for blood meals, which, females need for the completion of the life cycle (mating and laying eggs).

Female lays up to 250 to 300 eggs onto the soft underside of the male's tail during mating season, usually beginning in October or November.

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!)