Sentences with phrase «known as colonies»

Most feral cats live in groups known as colonies near homes or businesses where people feed them.

Feral cats are often too wild to be handled, and many live in groups known as colonies, taking refuge wherever they can find food.

Community (feral and stray) cats tend to naturally congregate in groups, known as colonies, around a common food source.

Previous studies linking neonicotinoids to sharp declines in honeybee populations, known as colony collapse disorder, prompted the European Union in 2013 to pass a two - year ban on the use of the pesticides, though bee experts now believe a parasitic mite, poor nutrition or both may also weaken or kill the insects.

Hives across North America have been hammered, many by a particularly mysterious syndrome known as colony collapse disorder, or CCD.

A big clue about what's behind the disappearing honeybees, also known as colony collapse disorder, or CCD: May Berenbaum's team at the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign found that bees» ribosomes were torn up.

Beginning in 2006, when episodes of high colony mortality were first reported, millions of dollars have been spent on research into the causes of what became known as Colony Collapse Disorder.

The UNSC faces a formidable new foe in its battle against The Banished with the arrival of the Hunter pair known as Colony!

Berenbaum's research has also been central to understanding the decline of bee populations in North America and around the world, known as Colony Collapse Disorder.

The cause of the die - offs, known as colony collapse disorder, is unknown, although numerous factors could be responsible including starvation, viruses, mites, pesticide exposure and climate change, according to the authority.

FA striking example of our dependence on pollinator services and the damage that can be inflicted on the agricultural economy without them can be seen in the decline of US honeybee populations beginning in late 2006 which became known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

The sudden and unexpected loss became known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, bee hives are found missing nearly all of their adult bees.

Not exact matches

Pyrosomes belong to the genus Pyrosoma and are planktonic, bioluminescent cylindrical or cone - shaped colonies made up of hundreds of thousands of individuals, known as zooids.

Well lets see, Maryland was founded as the only catholic colony so has a solid concentration, but we know demographics have changed since the 1700's.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

This group was known as the Middle colonies.

Carthage known to early Christianity originated as a Roman colony established on the mines of the Panic city destroyed in 146 BC.

Anyway, the pizzas at Colony are what's known as «bar style» — incredibly thin crust, bordering on cracker - like, basically individually sized, with hearty toppings like pepperoni, hot peppers, or anchovies that go all the way out to the edge (very little crust).

This generated a dispute over a roughly 2 - mile - wide section of border between northern Westchester and then - Dutchess counties and the Connecticut Colony; it came to be known as «The Oblong».

Chad, a landlocked former French colony, hosts the headquarters of France's 4,000 - strong regional anti-militant operation, known as Barkhane.

As Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a role that had previously been known as Secretary of State for the ColonieAs Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a role that had previously been known as Secretary of State for the Colonieas Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Within the Colony's population he is commonly known as «The Father of the Constitution».

He and his colleagues had been working there since 2007, taking samples seasonally from six colonies of Orbicella faveolata, also known as mountainous star coral, and their associated symbiotic algae.

They build colonies that rise from the ocean floor to form the colorful, whimsical structures that people know as reefs.

Graptolites, whose name means written in rock, were tiny animals that lived in colonies of little cuplike structures known as theca.

Millions of bioluminescent, tube - shaped colonies of creatures known as sea pickles (Pyrosoma atlanticum) are filling the waters off the U.S. West Coast all the way up to Alaska, Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

The plantation experiment set in motion by the British was intended to help make the best use of the colony of Malaya's (as Malaysia was known under British rule) timber resources and was also instructive in the development of rubber plantations that were spreading across the region to fuel the booming new automobile industry.

Mark Greco and Peter Neumann, entomologists at the Swiss Bee Research Center in Bern, discovered that as soon as the beetles enter a hive, worker bees in the colony surround them and force them to immediately pull their legs under their carapaces, adopting what is known as the «turtle» protective posture.

The deadly fungal disease known as white - nose syndrome has spread to bat colonies throughout eastern North America over the past seven years, causing bat populations to crash, with several species now at risk of extinction.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

A colony of the soft coral known as the «bent sea rod» stands bleached on a reef off of Islamorada, Florida.

It therefore seems important to identify the causes of population decline in rural colonies such as Canna, and find ways to conserve the birds at these sites, especially since gulls that fail to breed successfully are known to seek breeding opportunities elsewhere, including in towns and cities.»

Huge colonies of marine invertebrates known as pyrosomes may coordinate their jet - like propulsion system by flashing lights at each other

Within just a few years of their arrival the six - legged stowaways formed a single, massive colony — known as a supercolony — that stretched through California from south of the Mexico border to San Francisco

These slimy bacterial colonies, known as biofilms, add a remarkable new dimension to our understanding of the microbial world.

Bulmer thinks the small glucan breakdown products it releases could act as signals that get passed around the nest and trigger what's known as social immunity: The entire colony prepares for microbial attack before most termites ever encounter a germ.

For most living cells that's a deadly cocktail, but while some bacteria in the rock died as they were pounded on by the harsh space environment, a colony of bugs known as OU - 20 (they were sent up by the UK's Open University) resembling the cyanobacteria genus Gloeocapsa survived.

But it is entirely unclear whether natural selection can act on the parts within the colony, as it does on our own cells when we get cancer, since we don't know about the heritability between the parts of the colony.

Drew Pardoll, Glenn Dranoff, Elizabeth Jaffee, Hyam Levitsky, and colleagues conduct preclinical studies showing that a vaccine composed of tumor cells irradiated and genetically modified to produce immune system growth factor GM - CSF (granulocyte - macrophage colony - stimulating factor)-- which would become known as the therapeutic cancer vaccine GVAX — could induce potent, specific, and long - lasting anti-tumor immunity in multiple mouse tumor models.

In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000 km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the «Californian large», extends over 900 km (560 miles) along the coast of California.

It is known as a hematopoietic growth factor or colony stimulating factorand is given by injection under the skin (subcutaneous) or in the vein (intravenous).

It may not possess an atmosphere, or have any type of life as we know it, but as a solid surface on which to settle a new colony of individuals, it might be just the very best that you can possibly do.

It is known as the Bass Brushing technique and it works to break up colonies of harmful bacteria hidden within the gum line.

It merely demonstrates that caffeinated coffee causes a rise in blood levels of a growth factor known as granulocyte colony stimulating factor (GCSF), which is significantly reduced in individuals with Alzheimer's and shown to improve memory in mice with Alzheimer's.

To maintain good gut health we need a daily intake of approx one billion colony forming units (cfu) known as probiotics per day.

Kombucha is made when live organisms also known as the SCOBY (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) or «The Mother», feast on sugar and produce a fermented fuzzy tea.

Such exponential category growth comes with major advancements, such as the ability to detect the genetic identification of the specific probiotic strains and matching the amount in colony forming units (CFUs) of each strain present in the product, which savvy consumers know helps them identify products that will provide the benefits they expect.

Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) is one such lunar exile who formerly made his living outside the law, but has since gone straight and now runs the hippest nightclub in the moon colony known as «Little America.»

On the dark streets of Draiga, a mining colony occupied by the Visray Empire, lives Azura, the last of a fearsome warrior race known as the Sarnians.