ovipositing

No snipe today (alas) but lots of damselflies mating and ovipositing, some hatchling fish, and some (always too fast to ID) grassland sparrows.

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MORRIS: In Dr. Brooks 'paper he spoke of some of the twig girdlers in the beetle stage which feed upon the bark of twigs before ovipositing, and he said that gives a weak point where we may attack them.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924

In ovipositing the suspensors would leave the oviparous duct last.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various

Occasionally adults were hidden among the spines of the burs and were inadvertently enclosed in the bags; therefore, all nuts in bags containing female adults that might have continued ovipositing were discarded.

Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948

Doubtless, too, there are many skittish Geometrae or slender-bodied moths, and Pyrales, or Pearls, which are easily frightened, the females of which will rush from their places of concealment even before they are prepared to start on the mission of ovipositing.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

Some of you may, perhaps, have watched this progress of ovipositing, as I have done, and noticed how the female moth will hover in a peculiar way over different plants, but does not alight until she comes to a plant near akin to the one she is seeking.

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

ICHNEUMON, method of ovipositing in the bodies of caterpillars used by, 104.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

One day another turkey, seized with a desire of ovipositing, spied this nest and laid an egg therein.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

The Hyphantria textor now lays its smooth, spherical eggs in broad patches on the under side of the leaves of the apple, which the caterpillar will ravage in August; and its ally, the Halesidota caryæ, we have found ovipositing the last week in the month on the leaves of the butternut.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

(Fig. 244) we have seen ovipositing in the early spring, in the eggs of the Canker-worm.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872