Sentences with phrase «large numbers of colonies»

The largest number of colonies in southern California of double - crested cormorants is found on islands of Channel Islands National Park with nesting occurring on Santa Barbara, Anacapa, and San Miguel islands, with an occasional colony on Santa Cruz Island.

Not exact matches

The sheer number of insects locked in the facility — the largest colony of cockroaches ever to have existed on the planet — conjures some nightmarish scenarios.

Horner is best known for finding large skeletons, nesting colonies, and vast bone beds where herds of dinosaurs died, and his dig here has turned up a number of outstanding specimens, including eight Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, one of which is the largest in the world.

Social insects invest a lot of work and resources in their colonies, working together to raise large numbers of larvae.

The study, published today in BMC Ecology, explains one way that the balance of the colony is maintained to maximize the number of worker ants and females that keep the population large and functioning.

The large size of the colonies also provides safety in numbers, and may even allow the worms to engage in chemical warfare with potential predators through the collective production of dimethylsulphoniopropionate.

There is no definitive answer yet as to what's wiping out these large numbers of bee colonies.

As you say, it's still a mystery and it may be that the answer in the end is that there is not just one single cause that's leading to this colony collapse disorder; as the authors of this article outline, people studying this problem have noticed that in fact we do seem to have an unusually large number of problems with certain kinds of parasitic mites that can attack the bees

They find that wind delays smaller ants more than larger ones and that in windy conditions, colonies increase the number of larger ants, which are better able to deal with wind.

At each clinic, large numbers of community cats are humanely trapped, sterilized, vaccinated for rabies and returned to their colonies where they can no longer reproduce.

The reduction in the number of these homeless cats moderates the incidence of starvation and disease among them and eases community concerns and neighborhood tensions brought on by large colonies.

«Thankfully, a large number of advocates, including cat colony caregivers and animal welfare organizations, testified against the bill and it failed to move forward.

Examples include laws that prohibit cats from being at - large (so - called leash laws), require licenses for all cats, ban the feeding of any animal outdoors or limit the number of pets a person can own (with «own» defined as feeding, harboring or similar language that would apply to a colony caretaker).

«Don't let those large colonies make the public not want [return - to - field],» Trebatoski advised in a 2015 Maddie's Institute webcast, adding that once return - to - field is implemented, «the number of nuisance calls also falls dramatically,» which saves the city money long - term and allows animal control officers to focus on larger issues.

If you are working with a large number of cats, doing them all at once is by far the most effective way to curb the population growth of the colony.

But TNR and managing large numbers of cats in colonies does not effectively control cat overpopulation.

The city's wide variety of landmarks and activities attract a large number of UK tourists, and it's a great base for touring Victoria's Grampian National Park, viewing the penguin colonies on Philip Island or driving the scenic Great Ocean Road.

A large colony of sea lions, numbering in the hundreds, bask on the banks of Los Islotes, where the real fun begins.

On Saturday, November 5, at 12 pm Maartje Korstanje, resident at ISCP, will be present at Olive Street Garden (corner of Olive and Powers Streets, Brooklyn) to discuss her work commissioned for The Animal Mirror: An organic site - specific sculpture related to the recent disappearance of a large number of North American honeybee colonies, it is meant as much to serve as a home for solitary bees as for the enjoyment of its human visitors.

(In 1937, in company with Worth Griffin, he founded the Nespelem Art Colony, producing a large number of portraits and landscapes about life on the Colville Indian Reservation.)

Two years ago the fecal stain method identified several large, hitherto unknown colonies and nearly doubled our estimate of the world's Emperor Penguins.1, 2 That didn't mean climate change had necessarily increased penguin numbers, but a larger more robust population meant Emperor Penguins were far more resilient to any form of change.

The new work performed large scale sequencing on a number of samples from colonies that have collapsed, plus a few that have remained healthy.