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 salamanders are considered voiceless but the California giant salamander ( Dicamptodon ensatus ) has vocal cords and can produce a rattling or barking sound.

Most structural bricks are made by this method, as it produces hard, dense bricks, and suitable dies can produce holes or other perforations.

Most writers were content to follow the rules slavishly, some flouted some or all of the conventions, and some exploited the conventions to produce new and startling results.

Most felids seem to be able to purr, vibrating the muscles in their larynx to produce a distinctive buzzing sound.

Most so-called " single wavelength " lasers actually produce radiation in several modes having slightly different frequencies ( wavelengths ), often not in a single polarization.

Most Lomographic cameras are designed to produce photographic effects such as " oversaturated colors, extreme optical distortions, rainbow-colored subjects, off-kilter exposure, blurring and alternative film processing, all things usually considered bad in photography.

Most lossless compression programs do two things in sequence: the first step generates a statistical model for the input data, and the second step uses this model to map input data to bit sequences in such a way that " probable " ( e. g. frequently encountered ) data will produce shorter output than " improbable " data.

Most hypnotics produce low alphoid and spindle alpha brain-wave activity, similar to that found in REM sleep, or the dreaming state.

Most often the term monomer refers to the organic molecules which form synthetic polymers, such as, for example, vinyl chloride, which is used to produce the polymer polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ).

Most implementations produce a stable sort, which means that the implementation preserves the input order of equal elements in the sorted output.

Most models come out of the box looking new, because unweathered finishes are easier to produce and many collectors want models to look pristine.

Most reviews conclude that opioids produce minimal impairment of human performance on tests of sensory, motor, or attentional abilities.

Most fatty acids are non-essential, meaning the body can produce them as needed, generally from other fatty acids and always by expending energy to do so.

Most brands produce gradations of a color, the original pigment of which tends to be dark, from pure pigment to near-white by mixing in differing quantities of chalk.

Most organisms that utilize photosynthesis to produce oxygen use visible light to do so, although at least three use infrared radiation.

Most national post offices produce stamps that would not be produced if there were no collectors, some to a far more prolific degree than others.

Most operator-precedence parsers can be modified to produce postfix expressions ; in particular, once an abstract syntax tree has been constructed, the corresponding postfix expression is given by a simple post-order traversal of that tree.

Most are powerful systems consisting of one or more programs that can produce any arbitrary combination of images, graphics and text, the latter handled with type-setting capability.

Most tornadoes produce strong winds at the surface while the visible funnel is still above the ground, so it is difficult to discern the difference between a funnel cloud and a tornado from a distance.

Most codes and standards recognize that wind tunnel testing can produce reliable information for designers, especially when their projects are in complex terrain or on exposed sites.

Most strains produce one type of neurotoxin but strains producing multiple toxins have been described.

Most Chinese were divided into four occupations with scholar-bureaucrats, who were also agrarian landlords, on top and merchants on the bottom because they did not produce but only distribute goods made by others.

Most pseudorandom generator algorithms produce sequences which are uniformly distributed by any of several tests.

Most often this smoke comes from burning resistors, which produce a unique smell familiar to many technicians.