The blood is digested over time, serving as a source of protein for the production of eggs, which gradually fill the abdomen.

In older times, caroling children asked for and were given gifts such as dried fruit, eggs, nuts or sweets ; during the 20th century this was gradually replaced with money gifts — ranging from small change in the case of strangers to considerable amounts in the case of close relatives.

Within a clutch the size of eggs increases gradually and the last laid egg may be 20 % larger than the first egg.

Nests that have been threatened by agricultural operations have been manually translocated by gradually shifting the eggs.

The blood is digested over time, serving as a source of protein for the production of eggs, which gradually fill the abdomen.

Eggs are approximately 1. 0 mm long x 0. 6 mm wide and creamy white when laid ; fertile eggs gradually turn amber after a few days.

A sometime vegetarian and animal welfarist, Taber gradually moved the menu away from traditional diner fare to more alternative options, including tofu, humanely-raised eggs from local farms, freshly baked blueberry coffeecake, and a strongly-brewed cinnamon house tea, which has become its trademark beverage.

Beat well the yolks of ten eggs, and add to them gradually ½lb of sifted sugar ; when they are well mixed, pour in by degrees ½lb of good clarified butter, and a little ratafia or any other flavour that may be preferred ; fill the dish two-thirds full with this mixture, and bake the pudding for nearly an hour in a moderate oven.

When the worm dies or escapes, the cysts gradually shrink, leaving nodules of fibrous tissues and eggs which can calcify.

In 1937, Max Theiler managed to grow the yellow fever virus in chicken eggs and produced a vaccine from an attenuated virus strain ; this vaccine saved millions of lives and is still being used today.

Fig wasps grow in Common Fig caprifigs but not in the female syconiums because the female flower is too long for the wasp to successfully lay her eggs in them.

As they grow over the next two or three years and develop greater energy reserves, they spawn as females by releasing eggs.

Seabird eggs have also long been an important source of food for sailors undertaking long sea voyages, as well as being taken when settlements grow in areas near a colony.

Attacks begin as the eggs hatch, increase in frequency and severity as the chicks grow, and tail off as the chicks leave the nest.

Non-fertilised eggs become males, and only fertilised eggs grow into females and queens.

The common mussel ( Mytilus edulis ) produces ten times as many eggs that hatch into larvae and soon need to feed in order to survive and grow.

Trout usually only come to the surface when there is a large bug hatch ( when aquatic insects grow wings and leave the water to mate and lay eggs ).

After the eggs hatch and the early-stage larvae develop into leptocephali, the young eels move toward North America where they metamorphose into glass eels and enter freshwater systems where they grow as yellow eels until they begin to mature.

The eggs hatch asynchronously with an incubation period of about 14 days and the chicks grow fledge in 3 to 4 weeks and in the fledging stage show a reduction in body weight.

A multicellular generation with a single set of chromosomes – the haploid gametophyte – produces sperm and eggs which fuse and grow into a multicellular generation with twice the number of chromosomes – the diploid sporophyte.

The current North American standard calls for a chicken that is rumpless ( missing their last vertebrae and lacking a tail ), possesses ear-tufts ( feathers that grow out from near the birds ' ears ), and lays blue eggs.

By the third day, the mycelia has started to grow new fungus and the queen has begun to lay eggs, usually between three and six.

The Parasitica lay their eggs inside or on another insect ( egg, larva or pupa ) and their larvae grow and develop within or on that host.

Weeks later, the eggs hatch and grow into adults.

The red do so by implanting eggs beneath their victim's skin which grow into a baby blue slaad that eats the host from within.

Ever since people have this natural way of thinking on how they can survive and make a living by harvesting crops used for food and fiber, raising livestock such as cow, sheep and poultry that produces animal products like wool, dairy and eggs, catching fish or any edible marine life for food or for sale, forestry and logging to grow and harvest timber to build shelter.

When a horse rubs its nose on its legs, the eggs are transferred to the mouth, and from there to the intestines, where the larvae grow and attach themselves to the stomach's lining or they pass into the small intestine and attach there.

The female jellyfish carries its fertilized eggs in its tentacle where the eggs grow into larva.

Interestingly, many Pheidole species are the prey of parasitoidal Phorid flies that lay their eggs on the major workers ; the fly larvae grow mainly in the head capsules of the victims, eventually decapitating them, and probably would starve in the bodies of minor workers.

The fourth type of Geobiotes feed on fly eggs that grow on fresh dung.

H. nana infections can grow worse over time because, unlike in most tapeworms, H. nana eggs can hatch and develop without ever leaving the definitive host.

It produces a heat stable toxin enterotoxin when allowed to grow for several hours in foods such as cream-filled baked goods, poultry meat, gravies, eggs and meat salads, puddings and vegetables.

In Africa, the clutch is usually of three eggs, which are blue or greenish, marked with grey, lavender, and brown ; in India the clutch is usually two eggs, which are greenish or gray, spotted darker brown and blotched pale.

It produces a clutch of three eggs ; they are a light pinkish-brown colour ( likened by one author to that of silly putty ) with splotches of darker pink-brown and lavender.

Four eggs are usually laid ; they are olive or pale greenish with darker spots.

* Meadow pipit ( Anthus pratensis ): brown eggs speckled with darker brown.

It lays 2 to 3 ( rarely 1 to 4 ) pinkish-brown eggs with darker blotches, which are incubated for 28 – 32 days.

The eggs are darker on the broad end and often have cloudy spots.

* Scrambled eggs where tofu is mashed and fried with spices ( often including tumeric, for its strong yellow color ) to produce a dish that strongly resembles eggs.

Chicken egg ( biology ) | eggs vary in color depending on the hen, typically ranging from bright white to shades of brown and even blue, green, and recently reported purple ( found in South Asia ) ( Araucana varieties ).

The precise origin of the ancient custom of decorating eggs is not known, although evidently the blooming of many flowers in spring coincides with the use of the fertility symbol of eggs — and eggs boiled with some flowers change their color, bringing the spring into the homes.

Many Christians of the Eastern Orthodox Church to this day typically dye their Easter eggs red, the color of blood, in recognition of the blood of the sacrificed Christ ( and, of the renewal of life in springtime ).

The color of the sticky eggs is yellow to orange, the diameter is 2. 5 to 3 mm.

Enriched wheat flour, sugar, corn syrup, niacin, water, high fructose corn syrup, vegetable and / or animal shortening – containing one or more of partially hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed and canola oil, and beef fat, dextrose, whole eggs, modified corn starch, cellulose gum, whey, leavenings ( sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate ), salt, cornstarch, corn flour, corn syrup, solids, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, polysorbate 60, dextrin, calcium caseinate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, wheat gluten, calcium sulphate, natural and artificial flavors, caramel color, yellow # 5, red # 40.

The eggs have a white background color, usually with a grey hue and sometimes with a blue one ; they are patterned with blotches of yellowish-to reddish-brown and purplish-grey, often denser around the blunt end.

On average, 4 to 6 eggs are laid, the egg shells having a pale bluish color with a heavy sprinkling of blackish spots and some dark, irregular lines.

Other species of cuckoo lay " cryptic " eggs, which are dark in color when their hosts ' eggs are light.

Since these birds are cavity nesters, their eggs do not need to be camouflaged and the white color helps the parents to see them in dim light.

The eggs are a greenish buff color.

* Krashanky – from krasyty ( красити ), " to decorate "– are boiled eggs dyed a single color ( with vegetable dyes ), and are blessed and eaten at Easter.

The tears of Mary fell upon the eggs, spotting them with dots of brilliant color.

The eggs are a light blue or greenish color and speckled with dots.

He experimented with dummy plaster eggs of various sizes and markings finding that most birds preferred ones with more exaggerated markings than their own, more saturated versions of their color, and a larger size than their own.

* Sałatka Wiosenna-Polish spring salad chopped finely, radishes, green onions, pencil-thin asparagus, peas, hard-cooked eggs or cubed yellow cheese, mayonnaise, salt and pepper, sweet paprika for color.

The clutch varies between 2 – 7 eggs consisting of a creamy or off-white color with fine reddish spots throughout.

Blow-fly eggs, usually yellowish or white in color, are approximately 1. 5 mm x 0. 4 mm, and, when laid, look like rice balls.

The eggs are a dull white color and are laid every other day.

The eggs of the Spicebush Swallowtail are greenish-white in color, are fairly large and are laid one or two at a time on a spicebush leaf.

The eggs are yellow-green, and change after 8 to 9 days into a brown color before larvae hatch.