Sentences with phrase «lay an egg in»

The term «cage - safe» was coined to describe birds laying eggs in cages.

It's been a most victorious year for egg - laying hens — at least, the ones who will be laying eggs in 2025 — the deadline set by most major supermarkets and leading fast food chains including McDonald's, to transition away from tiny and cramped battery cages, the egg industry norm for more than a half - century.

Many wasp species lay their eggs in caterpillars, and so caterpillars have evolved to avoid them.

The ability to lay their eggs in nests, run and spread their wings are tangible benefits that shouldn't be underestimated.

Credit the Jayhawks for being the rare powerhouse not to lay an egg in this tournament so far.

He had plenty of opportunities to make noise in the postseason with Kansas City, but the team consistently laid an egg in January.

After that, his team laid an egg in its SEC debut; the Tigers were waylaid by injuries and went 5 - 7.

Arizona laid an egg in Week 1 and the Niners and Rams are two of the worst teams in the league.

The European Cuckoo, for example, lays her eggs in another bird's nest.

The female lays her eggs in his pouch, where he fertilizes them and carries the developing young until they hatch.

When my pullets began laying eggs in the winter of 2009, I began designing custom egg carton labels for myself, which evolved into a tiny home - based business making custom labels for others.

The Buffalo Niagara job market laid an egg in September.

These wasps lay their eggs in the nests of other wasps or bees.

They battle over, devour, hoard, and lay their eggs in the precious poop.

Females lay eggs in leaf litter on the ground in late spring and early summer, and then die.

When a caterpillar drools on a corn leaf, the offended vegetable releases chemical vapors that attract parasitic wasps, which lay eggs in the caterpillar.

In the experiment, amphibians laid eggs in all of the treatments, but larval amphibians (tadpoles) were only found in tanks without mosquitofish.

Several varieties paralyze tarantulas with their sting and then lay eggs in the spider's abdomen.

It also lays it eggs in a wider variety of settings, making it more difficult to exterminate.

This pest lays its eggs in fresh and ripening fruits before they are harvested.

When five California condors laid eggs in the wild last spring, 27 years after the recovery project began, officials were thrilled.

The fly lays eggs in a bee's abdomen.

Unlike most species of the genus Drosophila, which deposit their eggs in fermenting fruits, the so - called spotted - wing Drosophila, D. suzukii, lays its eggs in ripe fruits.

In addition to the fungicidal fungi, scientists have also seen small bugs laying their eggs in the infected ant corpse, where their larvae can then eat the growing fungus.

In North America, for instance, pitcher plant mosquitoes lay their eggs in pitcher plants and the larvae enter a state of dormancy in the winter months before resuming development in spring.

In superb fairy - wrens (Malurus cyaneus), mothers breeding in the presence of helpers lay smaller eggs of lower nutritional content that produce lighter chicks, as compared with those laying eggs in the absence of helpers.

Like cuckoos, African indigobirds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.

The researchers knew that aphids vary in their resistance to a major enemy, a parasitic wasp that lays an egg in a young aphid.

Redhead ducks, for example, frequently lay their eggs in canvasback duck nests to co-opt the other ducks» energy and food for their own young.

But in Schlenke's set - up, wasps avoided laying eggs in booze - soaked larvae.

Female cowbirds were better off laying their eggs in forest nests: Cowbirds that laid eggs in fields averaged only five fledglings, she estimated, whereas those that laid eggs in forest birds» nests ended up with 12.7 fledglings.

Now, new evidence suggests that today's slave snatchers started out as temporary parasites — ants that laid their eggs in the nests of other species and then used those workers as part - time caregivers for their own offspring.

The brown - headed cowbird is a so - called brood parasite that lays its eggs in other birds» nests, thereby letting other species do all the heavy lifting of chick rearing.

Parasitic ant species soon arose, in which queens laid their eggs in neighboring nests and enlisted the resident workers to care for their broods.

Some caterpillars blast their droppings like cannons so that parasitic wasps that lay eggs in the droppings won't be able to follow their scent.

She then lays an egg in the ball and buries it in a network of tunnels more than a meter deep, where it serves as food for the developing larvae inside.

Just like the cuckoo the wasps sneak in and lay their eggs in host nests.

The female will lay the eggs in a few weeks and in a couple of weeks after that, the scientists will know if the eggs are fertile.

More pronounced fluctuations in flow can scour away salmon eggs and exhaust young fish, especially when lower flows force adult fish to lay eggs in more exposed areas in the center of the channel.

Unusually rainy weather created perfect conditions for the insects to lay their eggs in damp, sandy soil every two or three months, swelling their numbers tenfold with each new generation.

After laying eggs in the sand, the female scoops them up in her mouth to brood them until hatching, which poses a logistical challenge for fertilization.

Rather than doing the hard labor of raising their own chicks, cowbirds and other so - called brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of various unsuspecting songbirds, which then raise the foreign chicks as their own.

Varroa mites are external parasites that lay eggs in the brood cells within the hive and emerge attached to the host when the bee hatches out of its cell.

Then, in March, they start breeding, and fly north to lay eggs in Texas or elsewhere in the South, Flockhart said.

Females lay their eggs in the fruit and the larvae destroy 15 to 30 per cent of the crop each year as they munch their way to freedom.

Parasites like phorid flies want to lay their eggs in the ants, while other ants merely want to steal the valuable real estate.

Several approaches may be needed, such as introducing fly - parasitizing wasps, removing chicks from nests for hand - rearing, raising sterile male flies to mate with females so they can't lay eggs in finch nests, and using insecticides, including placing pesticide - treated cotton balls where birds can collect them to self - fumigate their nests.

Parasitic nest flies lay their eggs in finch nests, which have dome - shaped roofs of woven plant fibers.

These observations, carried out at an extraordinary level of detail, made it possible to establish the interactions between one hundred or so species situated on four trophic levels: plants (23 species), aphids that feed on these plants (25 species), wasps that lay their eggs in the bodies of the aphids (22 species), and other wasps that lay their eggs in the larvae of the preceding wasps inside aphids (26 species).

While frogs typically lay their eggs in or above standing water, white - spotted bush frogs lay their eggs inside the hollow internodes of reed bamboo that grow along streambanks and their offspring emerge from the eggs as fully - formed froglets.