Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "second brood"

  • A second brood of Colias Philodice, the common sulphur-yellow butterfly, appears, and Pieris oleracea visits turnip-patches.

  • Argynnis Myrina flies from the last of May through June, and a second brood appears in August and September.

  • The last of the month a new brood of Grapta comma appears, and a second brood of the larva of Chrysophanus Americanus may be found on the sorrel.

  • The first point to be determined is whether bryoniae is capable of producing a second brood when it is thoroughly pure-bred, and whether such a second brood is, as I suspect, normally intermediate in character.

  • In some years there is a second brood in September.

  • It seems that other specimens had been taken at the same time, but these passed into collections as the "second brood of silacearia.

  • It feeds, in June and July, on oak, but may be reared on birch; also found in September as a second brood.

  • It feeds on the bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) in July, and has a second brood in September.

  • Occasionally a pair of hoopoes may be seen going through the antics of courtship preparatory to raising a second brood.

  • At times they seem to disappear in August to reappear in October, a fact which has led some observers to suggest that there is a second brood.

  • These eggs hatch in about a week into caterpillars that mature during the next three or four weeks, coming forth as a second brood of butterflies late in July or early in August.

  • Eggs are laid by these for a second brood of caterpillars that feed upon the host plants in the same way as the others, and mature as butterflies late in August or early in September.

  • Possibly in the South of Ireland there may be a second brood.

  • Occasionally there is a second brood in the year, and the specimens of this flight have smaller and rounder black spots in the males, and almost none at all in the females.

  • The caterpillars are to be found, after hibernation, in April, and a second brood in June and July.

  • Sometimes specimens of a second brood appear in August or September.

  • In some years, when the moths emerge in May, caterpillars are found as early as June, and this is followed by the occurrence of the caterpillar again, as a second brood, in August and September.

  • The verdigris-green eggs are laid in batches on the leaves of poplar and aspen, upon which the caterpillars feed in May and June, and, as a second brood, in August and September.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "second brood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and the; manifest destiny; must judge; second ballot; second best; second chapter; second coming; second concert; second degree; second demi; second expedition; second generation; second growth; second line; second marriage; second mother; second nature; second person; second place; second reading; second round; second self; second week; secondary consideration; secondary sexual; under glass