Sentence examples for laying an average from inspiring English sources

After reaching sexual maturity between 5 and 7 years of age, females will lay eggs throughout the mating season for the male to fertilize, with each female laying an average of 2.3 million eggs.

The mealybugs, with a life cycle of about a month, can spread quickly, with each insect laying an average of 440 eggs and producing 10 generations in a year.

A female lays an average of 12 48 eggs per nest, depending upon her age, size, and species.

Each female lays an average of 200 or more eggs during a single reproductive period, and three or more generations may be produced in a year.

Under standard conditions each female lays an average of a hundred eggs per clutch, providing a large number of larvae per week.

Oddly enough, we are having plenty of sex, though: Chicagoans get laid an average of 114 times a year, or better than twice a week.

Similar to the latter result, bellbirds did not reduce their clutch size and laid an average of 3 eggs (range of 2 4 eggs) at all sites despite the difference in predation risk among sites.

Female mosquitoes injected with dsRNA specifically targeting the AaegPTEN6 splice variant laid an average of 51% more eggs than the DsRed control females (p = 0.045).

Female mosquitoes injected with the universal AaegPTEN dsRNA also laid an average of 31% more eggs than control mosquitoes injected with DsRed dsRNA.

Our manipulation had a highly significant effect on the total number of eggs laid, as the experimental females laid an average of 2.1 more eggs than the control females (mean ± SE; control: 12.4 ± 0.19, n = 40; experimental: 14.5 ± 0.27, n = 42; t = −6.20, df = 80, P < 0.001).

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.