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The number and quality of eggs collected can vary, some may not survive thawing, and those that do may fail to fertilise.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Some of the guano is washed off the islands by rain and into the surrounding seas where the nutrients fertilise corals, and other marine species.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2023

Sexual reproduction in species such as humans needs sperm to fertilise eggs and create an embryo.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023

To fertilise the crops, India depends on imports for its entire annual consumption of 4 million to 5 million tonnes of potash and ships in a third of this from Belarus and Russia.

From Reuters ● Mar. 15, 2022

Gradually they also started to weed the fields, to guard them against parasites, and to water and fertilise them.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari