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The egg-bearing twigs often turn brown, droop, and die.
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Medical treatment can clear most genital infections and prevent further damage to delicate sperm-carrying or egg-bearing tubes.
A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010
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There are lettuces, kale, spinach, fennel, dill, onions, garlic (even a tomato plant that I couldn't bear to rip out)... a veritable collection of plants that nearly flash an "eat here" sign to egg-bearing Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
Geri Miller: Digging in the Dirt: My Garden's Gift to Me Geri Miller 2010
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There are lettuces, kale, spinach, fennel, dill, onions, garlic (even a tomato plant that I couldn't bear to rip out)... a veritable collection of plants that nearly flash an "eat here" sign to egg-bearing Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
Geri Miller: Digging in the Dirt: My Garden's Gift to Me Geri Miller 2010
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There are lettuces, kale, spinach, fennel, dill, onions, garlic (even a tomato plant that I couldn't bear to rip out) ... a veritable collection of plants that nearly flash an "eat here" sign to egg-bearing Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
Geri Miller: Digging in the Dirt: My Garden's Gift to Me Geri Miller 2010
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There are lettuces, kale, spinach, fennel, dill, onions, garlic (even a tomato plant that I couldn't bear to rip out) ... a veritable collection of plants that nearly flash an "eat here" sign to egg-bearing Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
Geri Miller: Digging in the Dirt: My Garden's Gift to Me Geri Miller 2010
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There are lettuces, kale, spinach, fennel, dill, onions, garlic (even a tomato plant that I couldn't bear to rip out) ... a veritable collection of plants that nearly flash an "eat here" sign to egg-bearing Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
Geri Miller: Digging in the Dirt: My Garden's Gift to Me Geri Miller 2010
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Some figs are riddled with these parasites, and when an egg-bearing female wasp prepares to leave, a nematode crawls onto her to hitch a ride.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Some figs are riddled with these parasites, and when an egg-bearing female wasp prepares to leave, a nematode crawls onto her to hitch a ride.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Some figs are riddled with these parasites, and when an egg-bearing female wasp prepares to leave, a nematode crawls onto her to hitch a ride.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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