Sentences with phrase «then lays their eggs»

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.

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

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.

They then lay an egg into each ball; each ball provides nutrition for the developing larva, and the more dung there is in the ball, the larger and more fertile the offspring will grow to become.

Tiny one - millimetre wasps, also called fairy flies, are drawn to suck the sesame flower's nectar; then they lay their eggs into the eggs of the leafhoppers on nearby rice plants.

A female ambrosia beetle mates once, founds a colony in tunnels she builds in a eucalyptus tree, and then lays eggs for 30 to 40 years.

While they are sucking the blood out, the flea then lays their eggs on the skin.

The adult flea can then lay eggs on your mutt's skin.

Adults feed (on blood from a host, e.g., your pet) and mate within 12 - 24 hours of their life; females then lay eggs within 24 to 36 hours.

They then lay eggs wherever they can all around your home; in beds, rugs, carpets, furniture, and clothing.

Not exact matches

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

We watched the mother bird build the nest, then looked in after she laid the eggs.

It gets dark around here practically right after lunch and then doesn't get light again until after my twelfth coffee so there is basically just enough sunlight to foster the entire Macaroni flock laying a collective one egg a day.

Lay down the egg, pop in the corn tortilla, then add a sliver of butter on top of the tortilla.

Grab your artichoke hearts and bacon, then lay your poached egg and pour the Hollandaise silk on top.

Lay fried egg over top and then drizzle with gravy.

Brush the rim of the crust with the egg wash, then carefully lay the stars over the berries overlapping them slightly.

Combine the shredded sprouts, toasted pine nuts, diced orange, sliced red onion — then toss with dijon vinaigrette * & lay hard boil eggs on top.

«Pare off some of the crust of the manchet - bread, and grate off half as much of the rest as there is of the root, which must also be grated: then take half a pint of fresh cream or new milk, half a pound of fresh butter, six new laid eggs (taking out three of the whites) mash and mingle them well with the cream and butter: then put in the grated bread and carrot with near half a pound of sugar, and a little salt, some grated nutmeg and beaten spice; and pour all into a convenient dish or pan, butter'd, to keep the ingredients from sticking and burning; set it in a quick oven for about an hour, and so have you a composition for any root - pudding.»

Dip the avocado slices into the egg whites, toss in the sugar, then lay on the prepared tray.

If eggs are laid onto a clean dry surface, then when they cool they remain clean and are impervious to bacterial penetration.

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.

For example, if you leave a poopy diaper sitting disposable or cloth — if you leave a poopy diaper sitting out most likely flies are going to find it and then they're going to lay eggs and that's going to turn into a big mess.

The researchers then compared the microbiomes of eggs that were laid with those that had been dissected out.

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

Medullary bone is only found in female birds, and then only during the period before or during egg laying.

Beekman and Oldroyd then put queen - laid eggs back into the colonies, leaving workers to choose which eggs to raise as queen.

The bees lay eggs and then fill the cells with a liquid called larval food.

If they're not in good enough shape, then they die while they're trying to lay the eggs or give birth,» Murphy says.

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.

You get all these beetles following the smell, and they congregate and have a big party and have a ton of sex and lay eggs all over the tree, and then go do it again somewhere else,» Jamison says.

The eggs of both species are laid on the outside of the colony and then eventually adopted by the ants.

Current theory holds that the southern hemisphere saw the emergence of the egg - laying monotremes, which then crossed into South America, where they eventually died out.

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.

Then he looks for families that lay the greatest number of eggs, rather than individual birds that perform well.

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.

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

«In two related experiments, the researchers tested the consequences of adding eggs to 30 nest boxes during egg laying and to another 30 during incubation, first using real eggs and then using flat paper models.

For an hour he watched as a Midlands Painted Turtle lowered herback end into the hole, laid her eggs, then spent an eternity coveringthem.

She will then begin to lay her eggs and sit on them like a bird.»

Then, it flips over onto its back, keeping the pupa between itself and the ant, while it lays an egg into the pupa from an upside - down position.

They settle down within it and over the course of about 9 hours lay a clutch of eggs, which the male then fertilises.

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.

«The barring on their plumage helps cuckoos conceal themselves while searching for potential nests, then when they approach, the host of the nest may mistake a cuckoo for a raptor coming to get them — giving them unfettered access to lay eggs,» Gluckman said.

The queen then sought out the larger cells and, on average, laid nearly three times as many drone eggs as usual, apparently making up for the skewed hive gender ratio that resulted from her incarceration, the researchers report in the November / December issue of Behavioural Ecology.

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.

The chimeras then foster the sperm / eggs of the germ - cell donor, meaning when bred they will lay eggs and brood offspring of the donor.

To assemble your sandwiches, lay a slice or two of avocado on top of the tomato, then add an egg and top with a spoonful of sautà © ed spinach and the top bun.

Brush the edges of the pastry with egg, then lay the second sheet of pastry on top.

Dip chicken strip in the flour, then the egg mixture then the coconut and lay strip on cookie sheet (repeat until all are coated)