Colonies with mature oocytes are highly likely to spawn close to the night of the next full moon (in this case, the June full moon), whereas colonies with immature eggs are likely to spawn on or around a full moon one or two months later (in this case the July or August full moon).
If people aren't deluding themselves, there were also a couple of contestants who'd been spurred on by parents who either love their children far too much or rue the day they were born: either one leads to the cruel undoing of their tone-deaf spawn on national television.
Sergius Orata, a Roman engineer who lived in the first century BC, cultivated oysters in southern Italian lakes by bringing them to spawn on rock piles that he surrounded with twigs.
In 1981, that dogma began to collapse when graduate students at James Cook University in Australia followed a trail of clues to a nighttime mass spawn on the Great Barrier Reef.
Capelin (Mallotus villosus) in coastal Newfoundland are known to spawn on beaches but deep-water (demersal) spawning sites in close proximity (< 4 km) have recently been documented.
In decades-old literature, she found that lunar cycles govern the worms' maturation and spawning patterns they spawn on nights around the new moon.
Todd McFarlane's Spawn, on the other hand, was totally different.
Earlier ideas that Murray cod spawn on floodplains, or that Murray cod larvae feed on floodplains, are incorrect.
"Then they hang out until it is time to come to shore and spawn on the eelgrass and kelp".
Synchronous spawning is very typical on the coral reef, and often, even when multiple species are present, all corals spawn on the same night.
Lake populations generally require access to gravel-bottomed streams to be self-sustaining, but occasionally spawn on shallow gravel beds with good water circulation.
