Most species seem to prefer a ready-made hollow such as a deserted mouse nest, a bird house, or the hole made by a woodpecker ; ;

Most species lay their eggs underground and when the larvae hatch, they make their way to adjacent bodies of water.

Most agnostid species were eyeless.

Most species of Asparagales are herbaceous perennials, although some are climbers ( e. g. species of Asparagus, family Asparagaceae ) and some are tree-like.

Most aquatic species have a totally submerged juvenile phase, and flowers are either floating or emergent.

Most species have 20 body segments, bearing 11 pairs of leaf-like phyllopodia ( swimming legs ), and the body lacks a carapace.

Most species show cyclical parthenogenesis, where asexual reproduction is occasionally supplemented by sexual reproduction, which produces resting eggs that allow the species to survive harsh conditions and disperse to distant habitats.

Most marine species live in tropical waters, but a few occur in oceanic trenches, and others are found in polar waters.

Most species are rather simply colored, lacking the flashy spotted or rosetted coats like many species of felids and viverrids have.

Most are terrestrial, although a few species, like procyonids, are arboreal.

Most species of Carnivora are, to some degree, omnivorous, except the Felidae and Pinnipedia, which are obligate carnivores.

Most have highly-developed senses, especially vision and hearing, and often a highly acute sense of smell in many species, such as in the Canoidea.

Most of the species are herbaceous perennial plants, but some are annuals.

Most species of brachiopods, a small phylum of marine invertebrates, survived the K – Pg extinction event and diversified during the early Paleocene.

Most species of Cimolestes were mouse to rat-sized, but the Late Cretaceous Cimolestes magnus reached the size of a marmot, making it one of the largest Mesozoic mammals known ( 20-60g ).

Most species ( about 62 %) are in six extremely diverse families, each with at least 20, 000 described species: Curculionidae, Staphylinidae, Chrysomelidae, Carabidae, Scarabaeidae, and Cerambycidae.

Most of the organisms collected were simple, soft-shelled foraminifera ( 432 species according to National Geographic ), with four of the others representing species of the complex, multi-chambered genera Leptohalysis and Reophax.

Most species of cacti have lost true leaves, retaining only spines, which are highly modified leaves.

Most predictions of forestry related biodiversity loss are based on species-area models, with an underlying assumption that as the forest declines species diversity will decline similarly.

Most species are suited to being planted outside or in containers.

Most of the cases covered by Poirot's private detective agency take place before his retirement to grow marrows, at which time he solves The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Most Ericaceae ( excluding the Monotropoideae, Pyroloideae, and some Styphelioideae ) form a distinctive mycorrhizae, where fungi grow in and around the roots and provide the plant with nutrients.

Most microorganisms do not grow in honey because of its low water activity of 0. 6.

Most flora which begin to grow above water — primarily coconut palms — die out quickly due to the fierce tides and lack of resources necessary to sustain plant life.

Most Piper species are either herbaceous or vines ; some grow as shrubs or almost as small trees.

Most occur in heathlands or low woodlands ; of the eastern species, B. integrifolia and B. marginata occur in forests ; many south-western species such as B. grandis, B. sphaerocarpa, B. sessilis, B. nobilis and B. dallanneyi grow as understorey plants in Jarrah ( Eucalyptus marginata ), Wandoo ( E. wandoo ) and Karri ( E. diversicolor ) forests, with B. seminuda being one of the forest trees in suitable habitat.

Most species do not grow well near the coast, notable exceptions being the southern Western Australian species B. speciosa, B. praemorsa and B. repens.

Most reach a maximum overall length of 40 – 60 cm ( 16 – 24 in ), but some strains of the largemouth have been reported to grow to almost a full metre ( just over three feet ) in length.

Most grow to a length of between 10 and 12 inches, though they can reach 17 inches or more.

Most species shed their skin four or five times as their bodies grow, and they eventually pupate into an adult form.

Most recently, the Royal Canadian Mint was inundated with queries and complaints from those who believed the first line should end with " grow " when a design for the ten-dollar bill was released in 2001 that featured the first stanza of " In Flanders Fields ", ending the first line with " blow ".

Most species of xenophorids cement a series of objects to the rim of their shells as they grow.

" Most autotrophs capture the suns energy in chlorophyll, but some autotrophs ( the chemolithotrophs ) obtain energy by the chemical oxidation of inorganic compounds and can grow in dark environments, such as the sulfur bacterium Thiobacillus, which lives in hot sulfur springs.

Most species are obligate phototrophs but C. reinhardtii and C. dysosmos are facultative heterotrophs that can grow in the dark in the presence of acetate as a carbon source.

Most species of kōwhai grow to around 8 m high and have fairly smooth bark with small leaves.

Most lichens grow on stable rock surfaces or the bark of old trees, but many others grow on soil and sand.

Most are allowed to grow up in a natural, semi-wild condition on the open range, but also have to be gentled and tamed in order to be managed from the ground, safely loaded into trailers, vaccinated and wormed, and to load in and out of bucking chutes.

According to the PRCA, " Most calves do not compete more than a few dozen times in their lives because of weight and usage restrictions and the fact that calves grow so rapidly.

Most online communities grow slowly at first, due in part to the fact that the strength of motivation for contributing is usually proportional to the size of the community.

Most natural trees and vegetation grow on hedgerows.

Most species grow long, dense racemes of small to minute flower in diverse shades of white.

Most members are aerobic, but a few, such as Actinomyces israelii, can grow under anaerobic conditions.

Most importantly, he was totally immersed in the spirit of the band, having watched it begin and grow from its earliest days.