Sentence examples for underside of the leaf from inspiring English sources

It lays its eggs on the underside of the leaf.

The thick stalk of the leaf is attached to the centre of the underside of the leaf of some species.

Squashing them and the grubs that eat from the underside of the leaf is the only organic method that works.

Seeds appear to have been produced on the underside of the leaf, with the leaf edges rolled over to form an enclosing chamber.

In their last hours, infected ants move towards the underside of the leaf they are on and lock their mandibles in a "death grip" around the central vein, immobilising themselves and locking the fungus in position.

It is caused by a fungus that spreads by airborne spores, starting off as yellow spots that are brownish on the underside of the leaf (where they will spore).

Infected Camponotus leonardi worker ants leave their nest in the canopy and seek out the underside of a leaf in the undergrowth, bite into a leaf vein and die.

The adult female can deposit up to 1,500 eggs in a single mass, lain on the underside of the host plant foliage leaf.

(The best-known zombie, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which belongs to a closely related genus, forces its ant host to hang on to the underside of a leaf while the fungus consumes its internal tissues, after which its mushrooms sprout from the ant's empty husk).

An uninfected ant would normally not bite a leaf, but infected ants do, clamping down on the underside of a leaf, almost always in the very middle of the leaf, where it is strongest.

After about two weeks of continuous feeding, the larva spins a silken, pearl-sized cocoon on the underside of a leaf and remains in the pupal case approximately two weeks before emerging as an adult.