Crawling up trees, they shed their skins, and become for a few, brief weeks glassy-winged adults that meet, mate, and lay eggs.
In general, sampling should be undertaken at the scale at which individuals meet, mate, and produce offspring (tens of meters in Ensatina; [ 32, 33]).
But, there are also benefits connected to activity, for example, increased chances to meet mating partners or to acquire and defend territories.
In the latter, hybrid zones - geographic regions where genetically distinct populations meet, mate and produce hybrids [ 7] - have been considered as 'natural laboratories for evolutionary studies' [ 8].
The L3s, which in animals become adult worms producing in peripheral blood circulating microfilariae, in humans reach only seldom the adult stage; moreover, only exceptionally adult worms meet, mate and yield microfilariae [ 5, 6], infectious for mosquitoes and useful for diagnostic purposes.
Ewan MacColl met mates at the entrance.
Both birds have since met mates at the clinic; the two couples are now resettled at farms in upstate New York.
His hobbies are swimming, hiking and gardening (he is big on gunnera) and he describes his social life as meeting mates in the pub or going to Marks & Spencer in the Angel, Islington, or Waitrose on Holloway Road.
Instead, it is best eaten at lunch or early evening, and comes into its own when you are rushing to meet your mates after work for a drink.
