At the time ofoviposition the nematode eggs are in the very earliest stages of cleavage.
However, Laurentiaux (1951), although conceding the possibility of egg laying in vegetable material, suggested that oviposition into the earth is more probable because of the unbending nature of the ovipositor.
The female licks up the drop of fluid that oozes from the oviposition puncture.
The oviposition of Dermestes ater DeGeer, with notes on bionomics under laboratory conditions.
One female was seen to feed on material that oozed from the oviposition puncture.
Some oothecae had four oviposition scars but never contained more than two parasite eggs.
The females feed on material that oozes through the oviposition puncture (Roth and Willis, 1954b).
Smith, "On Oviposition and Nursing in the Batrachian genus Dendrobates," Amer.
Ihering, "On the Ovipositionof Phyllomedusa iheringii," Ann.
In this generation the work of oviposition requires the shortest time and the least expenditure of energy, for the eggs are simply laid on the surface of a leaf.
Rösel believes that the female watches the eggs until they are hatched, and this explains the fact that she outlives the process of oviposition by about a month.
The oviposition causes her body to shrivel up, and some hours afterwards she dies.
This occurs among certain insects, while nearly allied forms of which the oviposition lasts over many days therefore possess a correspondingly long imago-life.
The oviposition requires a considerable expenditure of time and strength, for the ovipositor has to pierce the rather tough mid-rib or vein of a leaf.
Although the insect is not sensitive to low temperature, for I have myself seen oviposition proceeding when the thermometer stood at 5° R.
In obtaining evidence for ‘the fatal influence of reproduction,’ is it possible to point to every case of sudden death after the act of oviposition or fertilization?
Oviposition takes place in July, and the young are hatched forthwith, the usual number being from about 50-60.
The event which alone, at whatever period it may happen, seems to determine the bees to construct male cells, is the oviposition of the queen.
Yet this inattention after oviposition is not invariable; the female and neuters sometimes unite together in the same cell after the eggs are laid.
When the business of oviposition commences, they take the eggs from the female, and deposit them in the nurseries[44].
Oviposition being accomplished, incubation follows, sometimes immediately on the deposit of the last egg, but, not generally, until the succeeding day.
Generally, the nest is completed foroviposition during the last of this month, or the beginning of the succeeding.
The nest being finished, oviposition commences on the ensuing day, and proceeds at the rate of one egg daily, until the entire number is laid.
Oviposition is closely attendant upon nest-completion, and proceeds at the rate of one egg daily, until the entire set is laid.
Having finished their home, only a day or so intervenes when oviposition becomes the controlling instinct.
In the Southern States, oviposition commences in March or February, while in the northern limits of the range of this species, from the tenth to the fifteenth of April; seldom later.
Oviposition rapidly succeeds nest-building, and proceeds at the rate of one egg per day.
Oviposition commences on the day succeeding the completion of the nest, and proceeds at the rate of one egg daily, until the entire complement is deposited.
The time devoted to oviposition lasts from three to six days, and is dependent, upon the number which is to constitute a complement.
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