Sentence examples for lay single from inspiring English sources

However, sirens also lay single eggs, a behaviour that would not be facilitated by external fertilization.

Newts lay single eggs on the leaves of water plants and then fold the leaves over with their back legs – search for them at night by shining a torch into a pond.

Mating occurs in May and June, and females lay single clutches of three to 30 eggs in June or July.

In choice tests, females were more likely to lay single eggs in uninfected aphids, but more than one egg in H. defensa infected aphids.

In contrast, female octopods (both benthic and pelagic) lack a nidamental gland and an ANG, but provide substantial post-spawning care: females lay single eggs or strings in a den or shell, and tend to them constantly by maintaining a fresh, oxygenated, water supply and staving off predators until shortly before hatching, at which point the senescent female dies quickly (e.g. [ 64]).

The cane toad is a prolific breeder; females lay single-clump spawns with thousands of eggs.

As, for example, a lying single-walled CNT (with a length in the micron range but a diameter of only 1 nm) can presumably be very accurately sectioned via the voltage-dependent current mapping rather than performing uncertain I V spectroscopy with random tip-CNT contact geometry.

Each pair will lay a single egg and rear a single chick, and scientists have seen that survival rates among the young are highest when they're surrounded by chicks like them, born the very same day.

The handful of Big Sur breeding pairs lay a single egg once every other year.

Most females lay a single egg, but clutches of two eggs are not unknown.

Between the hedge and the front stair lay a single Timberland boot.