The idea is to attract the pest, usually the males before mating occurs, in order to reduce the number of viable eggs.

However, if the female flea is allowed to feed for twelve consecutive hours on a human, it can lay viable eggs.

He wondered how many viable eggs she'd sold to smugglers already.

The geese will believe the nest is full of viable eggs and will stop producing new ones.

I doubt if Setebos left one viable egg behind by accident.

Allowing viable eggs to be damaged now would be unconscionable.

When I told her we don't know if you can make viable eggs, she just lost it.

The females who produce the most viable eggs weigh 300 to 400 pounds, he said.

Females engage in pseudocopulation, stimulating both to produce viable eggs.

E. began a round of in vitro fertilization, but she didn't produce any viable eggs.