Sentences with phrase «laying eggs in them»

I can't believe the wasps were laying eggs in the holes.

You can explore the mountainous areas with their many rivers and scour the shoreline looking for nesting turtles laying eggs in the sand.

The area is known for its whale watching, and dolphins, loggerhead and leatherback turtles can be often seen laying their eggs in the sand during the summer months.

Drive to deserted beaches miles long and discover nesting sea turtles laying eggs in the warm sands.

The life cycle of the brown dog tick starts with a female laying eggs in a protected crevice.

Once she's made a meal of your dog, she'll start laying eggs in less than 48 hours.

In finely detailed photos by Ben Fink, Tillie gallivants around the farm, laying her eggs in unexpected places.

Different types of dung beetles have evolved diverse ways of eating, living in and laying their eggs in animal feces.

Then, just as your girl is laying her eggs in the snug little nursery you've prepared, some weedy little cheat slips in ahead of you and fertilises the lot.

In a clear plastic box in the lab, they observed the flies chasing live honey bees and laying eggs in them.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.