There is every reason to believe that eels and conger spawn but once in their lives, and die soon after they have discharged their generative products.
The spawn of the common frog differs from that of the toad in that the eggs all adhere to form a huge jelly-like mass.
An idea of the size which such masses attain may be gathered from the fact that the spawn of the angler-fish, Lophius piscatorius, takes the form of a sheet from 2 to 3 ft.
In the perch they are adhesive and form long band-like masses of spawn adhering to water-plants.
It is evident, therefore, that if eels only spawn once, they do not all reach the same size when they become sexually mature.
Thou say'st I am the very dregs of nature, Thy sin's the spawn of devils, 'tis no creature.
Now such are Satan's conduit pipes, for by them he conveys of the spawn of hell, through their being crafty in wickedness, into the ears and souls of their companions.
The spawn are white fibres, found in old pastures, where mushrooms grow, or in old spent hotbeds, and sometimes under old stable floors.
On this put the spawn or seed of the mushroom, in rows of six inches apart.
You may raise them as given for the trout above, or allow them to deposite their eggs in spawn beds of their own selection in their pond.
The large water-beetle, which is in the habit of feeding upon the spawn of fish, occasionally in the evening climbs up the stems of rushes, &c.
These cones consisted of half-melted ice, gelatinous, and much like the spawn of a frog.
Did the unusual severity of the winter cause destruction to the troutspawn in the headwaters of your brooks?
At first, the spectabilis affect the rapids, but after a few days seek the deep pools, where they gather in great numbers, and bite ravenously on hooks covered with spawn and sunk to the bottom.
Occasionally, when spawn was out, we used a bit of fresh venison; but at the best they cared little for it, and when the blood became soaked out, the bait was useless.
Salmon spawn was the best bait, but a bit of venison would answer.
The frog-spawn alga, therefore, will not thrive in any but the purest water, and a gentle flow is necessary to its growth and health.
Then place round the lobster a row of parsley chopped fine, and a row of the spawn from the inside chopped, and afterwards mix a little of each and strew over the top of the lobster.
To the meat of a large lobster add a pound of fresh butter and a pint of water, including a sufficient quantity of the spawn liquor to colour it.
Amochol, the Wyoming Witch, the Toad-Woman--all that accursed spawn of Frontenac must die.
Only to end this demon-thing, this poison spawn of the Woman-Toad!
Which meant that Walter Butler and that spawn of satan, Sayanquarata, were now prowling around our outer pickets.
Sticklebacks live mainly on the spawn of other fish, though they are so careful of their own, and they are therefore naturally hated by trout-preservers and owners of fisheries in general.
So it is not surprising to learn that a cat-fish has invented an exactly similar mode of carrying its young to that adopted by the Surinam toad: only, here it is on the under surface, not the upper one, that the spawn is plastered.
For weeks together this exemplary parent continues his monotonous task, ventilating the spawn many times every day, till the time comes for hatching.
They also carry the spawn of fishes and small crustaceans among their feathers into new waters, and feed upon the countless seeds of weeds that are scattered broadcast over the face of the earth.
Only a tithe of those which succeeded in quitting their native pond ever return to it full grown, to spawn in due time, and become the parents of further generations.
The female lays her spawn in the shape of long strings or rolls, looking at first sight like slimy necklaces.
They be usually full of eggs or spawn all the summer, I mean the females; and those eggs swell their vents almost into the form of a dug They begin to spawn about April, and, as I told you, spawn several months in the summer.
And to parallel this Cock, there be divers fishes that cast their spawn on flags or stones, and then leave it uncovered, and exposed to become a prey and be devoured by vermin or other fishes.
He is a fish of no great reputation for his dainty taste; and his spawn is accounted much better than any other part of him.
And you may also note, that the SPAWN of most fish is a very tempting bait, being a little hardened on a warm tile and cut into fit pieces.
F] Other species will sometimes be seen growing on mushroom-beds besides the genuine mushroom, the spawn in such cases being probably introduced with the materials employed.
This was luminous, but the light was by no means so bright as in those parts of the wood where the spawn had penetrated more deeply, and where it was so intense that the roughest treatment scarcely seemed to check it.
In that case artificial spawn must be used when the bed is made up, but this expedient is to be avoided on account of the expense.
And she asking whether the lad should come ashore, he answered, 'He is neither yours nor mine; let the spawn of Beelzebub stay on shore.
The public expresses its fear of this in the phrase it has invented--"the spawn of the press.
Then another 10 cm layer of straw, over which the spawn should be spread and so on till one reaches the top of the bag.
Any other coloured patches seen on the spawn signify contaminant fungi in the spawn.
One can produce up to six generations from one bottle of mother spawn with the help of tissue culture.
He showed us the inoculation and culture room for tissue culture as well as the ultraviolet tube where the mother spawn is prepared.
Occasionally females with spawn were placed in the same inclosures.
Mr. Carver's experiment was a failure, as he says the mud in the pond was so filthy that nearly all the spawn was killed.
To make it red, use the spawn of lobster and omit the spinach.
Up there, in the shadow of great mountains, in the hidden places of the Coast range, those that escaped their natural enemies would spawn and die.
No blueback was ever taken with red spawn in his belly.
The salmon swarmed in millions on their way to spawn in fresh-water streams.
Winter food, of dried salmon, train-oil, and the spawn of fish, especially herrings.
The spawn of all fish, but particularly of salmon and herring, is carefully preserved by stowing it away in baskets, where it ferments.
The spawn of salmon and herring is greatly esteemed, and besides that obtained from the fish caught, much is collected on pine boughs, which are stuck in the mud until loaded with the eggs.
May all thespawn of hell be your playmates," he roared in mad anger.
He kneels to the right of the altar, the crawling spawn of hell, where he has good chance to fill his lean body with food he makes pretence to feed unto that foul figure of wood.
I take heart anew, young man, for surely thou art not the spawn of the scarlet woman, but, verily, one of the chosen people of our own God.
What else saved us losing every pound we carried, together with the woman, you cock-eyed spawn of the devil, only that Ezekiel Cairnes possessed sufficient sense to throw himself in the way, upbearing the bulk of the strain?
You won't, you spawn of Baal, yet I marked plain enough how you filled your own lean belly with the best there was.
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