Assertion: termite's queen | /r/CapableOf | lay egg
Facets:
value: in a single day
type: TEMPORAL
value: all day long
type: TEMPORAL
value: at her peak
type: TEMPORAL
value: to begin their new colony
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Queens are egg-laying machines and can live up to 20 years: The queen in an African termite colony can lay up to 40,000 eggs per day, and the average queen can lay an egg every 15 seconds.
text: They excavate their nuptial chambers from wood or moist soil, where they mate and the new queen lays her eggs to begin their new colony.
text: Both termites and ants have queens that lay eggs and kings that fertilize them.
text: The varieties responsible for the vast majority of serious damage to our homes, subterranean termites, largely live out their lives in the dark, and their queens can lay many eggs in a single day.
text: During the first days the queen lays about five eggs.
text: There are species of termites in Africa whose queen lays an egg every 2-3 seconds.
text: At her peak a queen will lay an egg every 3 seconds, or 30,000 a day.
text: The queen lays eggs all day long and she produces 100 to 10,000 or more eggs a day depending on what type of termite it is.
text: Then, they mate, and the new queen lays eggs.
text: There is a complex set of roles and hierarchy to a termite colony, including a queen who lays eggs, workers who do all the hard labor, and nymphs or immature termites who have lighter duties but still work in the colony.
text: When the queen lays eggs, she becomes really big and not able to move.
text: Since termite queens are able to lay eggs roughly every 15 seconds and can live for decades, that adds up to millions of eggs.
text: The queen lays eggs every 15 seconds.
text: The little critters can live up to a year, but the queen can endure for more than 10 years doing what she does best: laying eggs.
text: After the queen lays her eggs, worker termites move the eggs to incubation chambers and care for them until they hatch.
text: After the fertilized queen lays her eggs, they hatch into pale white larvae.