1.   Gravid female fig wasps enter figs, lay eggs and die.

2.   These mate, fly away and the females find new plants to lay eggs on.

3.   For his part, Avery of the wildlife service emphasizes preservation of the habitat, breeding flies would be pointless if they have nowhere to lay eggs.

4.   It hangs there until spring, then struggles out as a butterfly to mate and lay eggs.

5.   Japanese beetles have trouble flying on rainy days, but well-irrigated lawns are a great place to lay eggs.

6.   Julie North Chelminski of Norwalk, Conn., sent photographs of her flock of chickens, which line up to lay eggs in the backyard clay oven.

7.   Likewise, those young insects mate and lay eggs in late summer.

8.   Pupae hatch into adult flies in June and look in the tree for something to lay eggs in.

9.   Sure, we know that they sing and build nests and lay eggs and migrate and occasionally make a mess of our windshields, but so what?

10.   The beetles, which are native to Japan, Korea and southern China, remove chunks of bark with their mandibles and lay eggs that develop into larvae.