Sentence examples for on average laid from inspiring English sources

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.

During the same period, various parts of the federal government's 2009 stimulus package expired and state and local governments were, on average, laying off employees.

"The birds are coming back later and on average laying their eggs three days later than they did a decade ago, so they have a shorter breeding season and that cuts down the amount of time they have to raise their chicks," said Prof Boersma.

On average, laid-off workers in this age group were out of work 22.2 weeks in 2008, compared with 16.2 weeks for younger workers.

On average, wildfires were laying waste to 30m acres of woodland a year in the 1930s.

One or rarely two broods may be laid in a season, the second being laid on average 51 days after the first.

Mature B. seriolae in vitro laid on average 37 eggs/day that hatched over approximately 4 days; peak hatching occurred 9, 11 and 22 days post-deposition at temperatures of 21, 17.5 and 13±1.0 °C, respectively.

Z. seriolae in vitro laid on average 246 eggs/day that hatched over 2 days; peak hatching occurred 7, 9 and 15 days post-deposition at these respective temperatures.

If that hypothesis were true, we'd expect pollinator offspring in inner ovules (i.e., longer ovules) to grow larger on average than pollinator offspring laid in ovules more towards the outside of the fruit; however, the authors found no relationship between offspring size and ovule length, which argues against this alternative hypothesis.

Subordinates' eggs are laid, on average, five days after the dominant female has produced her first brood.

Similarly, when given the choice between cucumber and tomato, mites from all selection regimes laid on average 76 to 79% of their eggs on cucumber.