Sentences with phrase «on small colony»

Return safely for a big payout, and retire on small colony to never be heard from again.

It makes sense, because you have to progress each map through each Era, expanding on your small colony up to your modern metropolis.

A responsible volunteer feeder is provided by the shelter to keep watch on the smaller colony.

Not exact matches

«So they're perfect for a life support system aboard a spacecraft that's travelling to Mars, or a small colony that's on Mars,» Thirsk says.

As I recall, Plymouth actually stayed rather small and insular for some time while the Boston Bay Company took off with their colonies in what's now called Boston, New Bedford, and I believe the Cape Ann area but I'd have to re-read a book I read while going to school down on Cape Cod a few years back.

As they wailed and wept and prayed under the tin awning that shades the path into this clustered colony of small homes, the question on the minds the Pakistani Christians gathered in Gojra was expressed by a priest: «Who will protect us now?»

Residents of small towns that rely on tourism and / or artists colonies and / or retreats for their economic well being.

Because it was a compromise struck at the Constitutional Convention between the large colonies like Virginia and New York, and the smaller colonies like Connecticut and Rhode Island that all states would get an equal say in the Senate to prevent the large states from forcing their policies on the Smaller smaller colonies like Connecticut and Rhode Island that all states would get an equal say in the Senate to prevent the large states from forcing their policies on the Smaller Smaller states.

With the support of her rodent - tolerant family, she studied the effects of varying thyroid hormone levels on the physical characteristics of a small rat colony she housed in her living room.

The researchers grew groups of yeast colonies in rows of small, circular wells on plastic trays — imagine the bottom half of a miniature egg carton that has eight rows instead of two.

Researchers knew that the small Mediterranean nudibranch Cratena peregrina, with a colorful mane of streamers rippling off its body, climbs and preys on pipe cleaner skinny, branched colonies of Eudendrium racemosum hydroids, which are distant relatives of corals.

«There may not be much we can do to mitigate climate change, but steps could be taken to make sure the Earth's largest colony of Magellanic penguins have enough to eat by creating a marine protected reserve, with regulations on fishing, where penguins forage while raising small chicks.»

Oppel and his team found that they could use audio recordings to estimate a bird's population size after testing the method on a raucous colony of Cory's shearwaters that breeds on a small island in the Azores called Corvo.

This division of labor is most marked in larger colonies (those found on larger trees), while workers in smaller colonies do both jobs.

Adélies are two - foot - tall birds that feed on krill, fish, and squid and build their nests from small beach pebbles in colonies that may occupy the same site for thousands of years.

The University of Minnesota's Annie Bracey and her colleagues attached geolocators — small, harmless devices that record a bird's location over time based on day length — to 106 terns from breeding colonies in Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York.

To study this, the researchers worked with different colonies located in Patagonia, Argentina, and measured the length of both outbound and inbound laden ants, as well as the effect of experimental wind (generated by computer coolers in the field) on larger and smaller ants.

Developed by Mocon Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota in partnership with Luxel Biosciences of Cork, Ireland, the small, compact GreenLightâ «cents Model 910 is a breakthrough system which offers rapid, same day, preventative screening technology for aerobic bacteria right on the farm by measuring respiration to determine the total live bacteria colony count.

What originally began as a small British colony has become one of the busiest urban areas on the East Coast.

The numerical cut - off for normality of 1 x 105 colony forming units per milliliter (cfu / mL) total bacterial numbers or 1 x 104 cfu / mL anaerobes was based inappropriately on the numbers found in the human small intestine.

Cats form loose colonies based on the availability of food in their area, but they usually hunt alone; they hunt prey smaller than themselves and do not share their food with other adult cats.

Rural Homes Needed for Feral Cats: If you are fortunate enough to live the good life, whether it be on a large amount of acreage or just a small rural tract of land, and you would like to share your good fortune with a colony of feral cats (2 or more), then we call fulfill your dreams.

And we have taken on our first three colonies, a group of about 50 cats in Dove Creek, and two much smaller groups in Cortez.

Stray cats often rely on humans for food, whereas colonies of feral cats will typically feed on garbage, rodents and other small animals.

The small colony of cats for whom you've been caring for years (sterilization and vaccination was just the beginning) lives quietly on your property.

A colony can be big or small, depending on circumstances.

We only included mainland and large island (New Zealand and United Kingdom) predation studies, because cat predation on small islands is often exceptionally high36, 37 and focused on colony nesting seabirds38.

Their small size makes it possible to house pairs or colonies in 10 - 20 gallon tanks, depending on how many you want to keep.

Eight years ago, we found two new, very small young cats sitting on two rocks in our colony of feral cats.

The «fish pinnacle» on the eastern side is home to a large school of Bigeye Snapper, and also an enormous colony of Sweepers that shelter in a small overhang there.

Some species, such as the Uria guillemots, nest in large colonies on cliff edges; others, like the Cepphus guillemots, breed in small groups on rocky coasts; and the puffins, auklets and some murrelets nest in burrows.

This new nesting colony was spotted perched on the 100 - foot - high sea cliffs of Prince Island - a small islet off San Miguel Island within Channel Islands National Park.

On this hike we climbed up and down the rocky coastline, hiked past a colony of seals, and wandered on a second, smaller peninsula made.On this hike we climbed up and down the rocky coastline, hiked past a colony of seals, and wandered on a second, smaller peninsula made.on a second, smaller peninsula made...

Huge, lens - shaped reefs are sculptured by the constant pounding of heavy seas on the gently sloping point down to a depth of 90 ft. Below 20 ft, they are made up of a mixed collection of small living coral colonies and stacks of coral debris.

Goa is India's smallest state, a former Portuguese colony situated on the country's west coast.

A colony on a distant planet is rocked by poverty and civil unrest, and a young woman named Rose and her small band of supporters fight desperately to protect the population from marauding criminals and uncaring politicians.

Aven Colony puts you in charge of humanity's first extrasolar settlement, where you build and expand your small colonies into massive, sprawling cities while dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

One not - so - small step to squash colony collapse disorder: France has announced that it may ban Syngenta's Cruiser OSR insecticide, one in a class of pesticides increasingly linked to contributing to CCD, for use on rapeseed crops (Reuters).

Pesticide - exposed colonies were on average 8 - 12 percent smaller than the colonies that had not been exposed, which implies that exposed bees were not gathering as much food.