Sentences with phrase «laying eggs on»

According to Church, the flip flop flotsam was not only a hygienic problem for the people, but was also preventing female turtles from laying their eggs on the beach and the freshly hatched turtles from returning to the ocean.

The giant, ancient, endangered turtles, some the size of a Smart Car, have until now only been known to nest in four spots in the United States — with about three dozen females a year laying eggs on beaches along the east coast of Florida and slightly larger nesting populations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

If you're really lucky, you might see a Baula turtle laying her eggs on the beach at night.

With a hatchery located on the island, visitors may be able to see baby turtles hatching and getting released to the ocean or even see the female turtles laying their eggs on the beach.

We saw multiple Loggerhead turtles laying their eggs on the beach at night!

Between July and September, you'll also have the chance to witness sea turtles laying their eggs on the beach.

Some venture down in winter to watch 50 - foot gray whales on their migration, and others to witness giant turtles laying eggs on the sandy shore.

Sea turtles laying eggs on the Sandos area beaches are loggerhead, hawksbill, green sea turtle, and leatherback turtles.

This is because turtles shy away from laying eggs on busy, dirty, and brightly lit beaches.

Dips — If you get your dog professionally washed, they may have a flea dip applied to kill existing fleas and prevent new ones from laying eggs on your dog.

These happy white butterflies (actually Imported Cabbage Worms) are laying eggs on your plants.

To compare beetles» preferences for laying eggs on olive versus ash will take a larger study.

In nature, laying eggs on oranges is advantageous, because parasitoid wasps feeding on the larvae of Drosophila avoid citrus fruits.

Then, the wasp lays its eggs on the baby emerald ash borer.

A fourth candidate, Vijay Singh, had a chance to make a commanding case at the AmEx but laid an egg on Sunday.

Oakland on the other hand laid an egg on Sunday Night Football.

One example is the burying beetle, which owes its name to its habit of burying a mouse carcass that it then lays its eggs on.

They lay their eggs on milkweed, and their caterpillars eat only the leaves of the plant.

Infected monarch butterflies will lay their eggs on plants that contain a chemical that can protect the butterflies» offspring.

Drosophila sechellia females, which lay their eggs on these fruits, carry a mutation in a gene that inhibits egg production.

The flies are strongly attracted by the fruits of the morinda tree: they feed on its fruits, and females prefer to lay their eggs on these.

The insects are attracted to odors that had been applied on filter paper and, depending on the odor, unroll their proboscis and try to drink nectar or bend their abdomen and lay eggs on the paper.

But Emory University's Jaap de Roode wondered if the choice might be related to a parasite that's passed from mother to offspring, with fatal results: «What we do find is that the monarchs prefer to lay their eggs on the medicinal species when they are infected.

During some years, up to as many as 12,000 green sea turtles aggregate around Raine Island to lay eggs on the beach, which offers scientists a natural laboratory to compare the movements and behaviours of the turtles and tiger sharks during a time when sea turtle concentrations are higher than average.

This fish lays its eggs on Newfoundland's beaches, where the hatchlings linger for up to a week.

McAlister shows off the Diptera collection like an adoring parent: the lovely bee flies; the curious hairy legs of the robber fly; the amazing eyes of the stalk - eyed flies; the mosquito with feathered mid-legs that look like legwarmers; U.K. crane flies with wide wingspans and long, delicate legs; the horse fly with a 2 - inch - long proboscis; the bot flies that lay their eggs on mosquitoes for transportation.

But they still need to lay their eggs on something solid.

Females lay their eggs on vegetation which overhangs ponds, where they may be eaten by the cat - eyed snake.

New research reveals that the spindly - legged Halobates sericeus has begun to lay its eggs on not only bobbing pieces of pumice and other ocean debris but also on floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean.

There are two types of parasitoids: ectoparasitoids, which lay their eggs on or near the host, so that the hatchling larvae can attach to and feed on the insect from the outside; and endoparasitoids, which lay their eggs directly inside the host, so that the larvae can eat them from the inside out.

An analysis of the behavioural assays showed that female flies preferred to lay their eggs on oranges.

Research reveals that the spindly - legged bug Halobates sericeus has begun to lay its eggs on not only bobbing pieces of pumice and other ocean debris but also on floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean.

Any gravid — pregnant — female that wants to leavethe marsh must make a small contribution to science before she «spermitted to seek out a place to lay her eggs on the other side of thefence.

«If the water is pretty stinky, [mosquitoes] will find it, and they will lay their eggs on it,» Mike Szyska, director of the Northwest Mosquito Abatement District in Illinois, told the Tribune.

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.

In the UF / IFAS study, scientists wanted to know how and why some butterflies survive wildfires and prescribed burns, particularly where the insect feeds and lays eggs on fire - adapted plants.

Loggerheads lay their eggs on subtropical beaches around the world.

Focus: Return to Turtle Bay — Four - fifths of the Mediterranean's loggerhead turtles lay their eggs on one Greek beach — but for how much longer?

Monarchs feed on milkweed and lay their eggs on the plants.

In the case of the spooked spider (Plesiometa argyra), a parasitic wasp (Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga) lays her eggs on the spider's abdomen.

Females visited the males at nest sites and laid their eggs on a submerged part of the rock for the males to fertilise.

They overwinter in forested groves along coastal California, then fan out in the spring to lay their eggs on milkweed and drink nectar from flowers in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah.

Many plover species lay their eggs on in the ground, out in the open, where the nest receives direct sunlight and affords the parents a view of any incoming predators.

Therefore, flies are able to lay eggs on it, which leads to maggots.

Watch one of the most spectacular sites in nature as adult female leatherback turtles come ashore to lay their eggs on desolate sandy beaches in the Caribbean island of Trinidad.

She'd set up a chair and small table and laid the eggs on a towel to dry.

They really laid an egg on the 9650, and that's after BlackBerry held out on us.

Remember, most people think of yield as a magic chicken that lays eggs on schedule, and never gets sick or dies.

Adult fleas lay eggs on the pet.

The females lay eggs on the dog's skin, and these can fall off onto the carpet, bed, your clothes, the floorboards, and anywhere else that the dog goes.