Sentences with phrase «lays an egg at»

After spending many hours digging and laying eggs at Huon Island, a female green turtle makes it back to the sea as the sun rises.

Because they never lay their eggs at temperatures under 25 °C, they are found only in bakeries or canteen kitchens.

When fleas are infesting a dog the female lays eggs at a rate of about thirty per day.

Turtles still follow their age - old calling to come ashore and lay their eggs at the islands.

In Awala you can spot turtles laying eggs at night and early morning.

Learn to surf, go to the Playa Grande (National park) to watch sea turtles lay their eggs at night from sept. — jan..

From November to January nesting sea turtles, including endangered loggerhead turtles, come ashore at night to lay their eggs at Mon Repos beach, in the city of Bundaberg (about four hours» drive or a one hour flight north of Brisbane).

Not exact matches

There's an argument to be made that going so far so fast could kill the goose that lays the golden egg, destroying jobs at a time when more are desperately needed, particularly for the young.

In a sign of just how strong demand for eggs is this year, separate data from the US Department of Agriculture showed there were 385.6 million laying hens in the US at the start of March, the highest over a comparable period in at least a decade.

Animals have been laying hard - shelled eggs for at least 140 million years.

The ones they sell at work are over $ 3.00 and I can make one for about $ 1.10, since I have my own egg - laying chickens.

Rose Acre Farms has approximately 25 million chickens, 85 percent of which on average lay an egg daily at one of the company's farms in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Missouri, Georgia or North Carolina.

At the end of each row of perches is a box with red plastic flaps where the hens lay their eggs, and each hen has a perch on which it can sit.

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.

I agree with this comment, as well as with the others on industrial agriculture, though I do want to mention that there are small town, local and organic farmers out there who treat animals and the environment well — while I do not support the dairy or egg industry, I love to see our friend Bob's hens running around wild, pecking at bugs, etc. and we will eat those eggs, which are seasonal because hens naturally lay more during certain times of the year.

Short Dough Crust: 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at cool room temperature, cut into 8 pieces 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 egg yolk 1 1/4 cups all - purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt Chocolate Silk Filling: 12 ounces Collection Etienne's Sur del Lago chocolate, finely chopped (about 2 cups chopped) 1 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter at warm room temperature (it should be quite soft) 2 egg yolks from eggs graded large 1/2 cup sour cream Garnish: 1 pint (2 cups) ripe blackberries, gently rinsed and laid out on a towel to dry

Watchful Crip, one of three whooping cranes in captivity, stands guard over two eggs laid by mate at New Orleans zoo.

Though it is in evidence at other times, the bird is a secretive nester, laying its eggs, hatching and rearing its chicks in riverbank burrows.

Ohio State was left out of the CFP because of the single most baffling egg - laying of the season (at Iowa).

After Dan Graziano's report that team owner Dan Snyder's relationship with Robert Griffin III was toxic to the point where Shanahan considered quitting as the Redskins were preparing for a playoff game, the Redskins came out and laid an egg to the fullest extent in front of one of the sparsest crowds you'll ever see at an NFL game.

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

But if the eggs are laid into a fecally - contaminated area, such as the nest boxes at most small farms I have visited or just onto the ground, then as they cool and the cuticle dries, whatever bacteria were present in the feces are drawn INTO the egg, where they can live and multiply and make you sick.

We also raise laying hens, both in our poultry house and in our «Egg Mobiles,» our mobile chicken coops, and sell the eggs at the admissions window.

However, in one Internet chat exchange with Christian mothers who sought clarification of GFI parenting advice, Ezzo wrote that participating in the discussion was like «being in the henhouse at egg - laying time.»

The episode laid bare the deep divisions of the Republican Party at the convention and Trump himself even appeared at the back of the convention hall to seemingly egg on the crowd.

The team is still waiting on the results of DNA tests that will tell them exactly what kinds of microbes are found on the eggs, but initial results showed that the laid eggs are more likely to have any bacteria at all.

Microbial transfer from mom to offspring happens in a lot of species, but researchers are more familiar with how species that give live birth do this than those that lay eggs, biologist Stacey Weiss of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., noted August 1 at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.

As this drives the evolution of resistance, Andrew Read at Pennsylvania State University in University Park decided to examine what happened if this selection pressure was removed by only killing elderly mosquitoes that had already laid eggs.

Located at the rear of the honeybee's body, the stinger is actually a modified ovipositor, the organ used for laying eggs.

If the number of eggs hatching at La Escobilla plummets, the number of females that arrive each year to lay should follow suit a few years later.

Modern chickens carry a version of the thyroid - stimulating hormone receptor gene, TSHR, that has been linked to several domesticated chicken characteristics: year - round egg laying, faster egg production at sexual maturity, reduced aggression toward other chickens and less fear of people.

To find out if global warming might skew the sex ratio of hatchlings, Rory Telemeco and his colleagues at Iowa State University in Ames developed a mathematical model to predict the sex ratio of eggs laid at different temperatures.

Birds that eventually rejected parasite eggs still laid an average - sized clutch of their own — even though the alien eggs remained at the top of the nest for several critical days before being buried.

The chicken - sized Maleo lays a huge egg, which it buries in the sand at its home on the Indonesia [n] island of Sulawesi.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

The tracks are represented by solid lines, using a color code that indicates time (purple to white: from the blastoderm stage to the end point of the reconstruction at 5 h after egg laying).

One Komodo, named Flora, lives at the Chester Zoo in England and has never been kept with a male; yet a few months ago she laid a clutch of 11 eggs, eight of which seem to be developing normally and may hatch as soon as January.

In 2006, staff members at two zoos in the United Kingdom identified two female Komodo dragons that each laid an unusual clutch of eggs.

The researchers also checked for the sparrows» motivation for ejecting eggs by introducing the models either at the time of egg - laying or during incubation.

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).

Newspaper lining the bottom of a stink bug (Podisus maculiventris, pictured, with eggs at bottom) cage may seem an unlikely impetus for scientific discovery, but it was the black and white squares of the crossword puzzle that that led Paul Abram, an entomologist working towards his Ph.D. at Université de Montréal in Canada, to suspect that stink bugs might be employing a surprising strategy when laying their eggs.

The finding means that Baby Louie isn't the only fossil to gain an identity: The same fossil eggs that were found with him, known as Macroelongatoolithus, are commonly unearthed at dig sites across Asia and North America, but paleontologists previously didn't know what types of creature laid them.

When presented with a place to lay their eggs year - round, many monarchs don't bother making the trip to Mexico at all.

Asian carp are hardy, lay hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time and spread into new habitat quickly and easily.

The researchers looked at correlations between egg shape and traits associated with the species of bird, including nest type and location, clutch size (the number of eggs laid at a time), diet and flight ability.

Instead of the typical low - involvement insect motherhood of laying many little eggs and leaving them to their luck, a female tsetse fly has just one offspring at a time.

«For example, we noted that males that had been bred for increased same - sex mounting behavior were less discriminating when given a choice between courting a male or a female in later tests, while their sisters laid more eggs and produced more offspring than before», says David Berger, Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Genetics at Uppsala University and one of the researchers behind the study.

And while other factors — like where birds lay their eggs and how many they lay at once — weren't significantly related to egg shape across birds as a whole, they could be important within certain branches of the bird family tree.

One pattern jumped out: Species that are stronger fliers, as measured by wing shape, tend to lay more elliptical or asymmetrical eggs, says study coauthor L. Mahadevan, a mathematician and biologist at Harvard University.

At the watering hole, flies drink, mate and lay eggs.