Most of the young will not survive to adulthood to lay their own eggs, so they lay thousands for a greater chance that a few--the strongest--will survive.
Parasitic wasps lay their eggs among the eggs of aphids. There must be aphids already present so that the wasps can lay their eggs and the wasp larvae will infect the aphid larvae.
Yes. Flounder lay thousands of eggs, and are fertilized by the males.
Yes, flatworms are known to reproduce sexually by laying eggs, which can hatch into either free-living or parasitic larvae depending on the species.
thousands
They lay thousands of eggs, but only a few will survive. The eggs are common food for other predators in the ocean.
before it dies it lays thousands of eggs
Thousands at one time.
Most lay thousands of eggs.
it varies from hundreds to thousands
they lay thousands of eggs and then they hatch
Squids are egg layers. When they are ready to lay their eggs, they attach them to sea grasses or kelp. Sometimes however, they will wash up on the shore in the late spring time.
Fish typically lay the most eggs compared to frogs and spiders. Some fish species can lay thousands to millions of eggs at once, while frogs and spiders typically lay smaller clutches of eggs.