Among ants, for example, queens lay the eggs, and workers search for food and protect the colony.

在蚂蚁间，如蚁后生蛋，而工蚁寻找食物包围蚁巢。

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The fish lay thousands of eggs at one time.

这种鱼一次产卵数千个。

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They lay eggs that incubate through the winter.

它们产下卵，要孵化整个冬天。

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"They fly to it thinking they can lay their eggs there and it will be a good place for their eggs to hatch out and eat the rotting meat, but they get tricked into just pollinating the flower."

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Each year, the birds lay their eggs near the site of an old swimming pool on Longsands beach in Tynemouth.

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Researchers have hope for tiny parasitic wasps from Asia, which scientists are studying to see if they can be hungrily effective if introduced in the U.S. The wasps lay their eggs within the stink bugs' own egg masses.

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But again on average only one of those females is permitted by the male to lay her eggs in the nest.

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