Sentences with phrase «with other colonies»

Treat and wage war with other any colonies to achieve mastery over your domain.

They observed how the laboratory colonies interacted with intruders and how well they competed with other colonies for food.

But the new study is unique in that all of the ant workers started with a clean slate — they hadn't been exposed to interactions with other colonies that might incline them to act in one way or another.

Colonies of funnel ants show group personality, which affects their success at collecting food and competing with other colonies.

Not exact matches

Subsequently, with the aid of funds supplied by the great Jewish philanthropist, Baron de Hirsch, other and luckier colonies were started.

The Mayflower and other ships to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were stocked with ample wine and beer.

To do this, they had to protect themselves and each other from each one's religion, for each Colony was a miniature theocracy filled with tiny theocratic enclaves.

Some nations were better poised than others to take advantage of innovation — England in particular, because it had a relatively open society with more scope for entrepreneurship; strong institutions of political liberty; a commitment to the scientific method exemplified by Newton; lots of seaports and colonies; a relative isolation that reduced the risk of invasion; and lots and lots of coal.

Brown and some other western historians have drawn the wrong conclusion that the Indian church was a daughter church of the Persian church and the early churches of Malabar were connected with colonies of foreign traders.

The democratic societies have no one supreme or dominant member, with examples being such things possibly as stones and probably as some cell - colonies and even special forms of many - celled plants and animals.42 Monarchic societies, on the other hand, do have a supreme or dominant member which radically subordinates the parts to its ruling purpose but which can never completely rob the parts of all measure of control over themselves.

These same beliefs and symbols articulated by the New England Puritans merged with parallel, similar, and, at time, even dissimilar values and beliefs from other sources to produce a new ideology which formed and shaped the resistance of the American colonies against Crown and Parliament.

During the war they sent a petition to the Virginia Government stating that «at a time when this colony, with others, is contending for the civil rights of mankind, against the enslaving schemes of a powerful enemy... the strictest unanimity is necessary among ourselves.»

-- Lt. Col. Charles J. Ward, Honorary Commissioner for Jamaica, Jamaica at Chicago: An Account Descriptive of the Colony of Jamaica, with Historical and Other Appendices.

A bee swarm is when a colony «reproduces» itself by, in this case, splitting in half and taking the queen to find a new home, leaving behind the other half of the colony, along with a new queen in the making.

The other day, I was attending a webinar — thankfully not one with video - conferencing capabilities — on honey bee colony losses for an article commissioned by a local magazine.

At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited by the center for decades of research and then abandoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

It may yet be too early to address the «moon base» scenario directly (unless of course you are Newt Gingrich), however, the concept underlying this discussion is not unlike the one the first European settlers in America (among other colonies) struggled with.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Cybercrime, Dr. Abdulfatai Buhari has insisted that he and other 17 Senators from the South West geopolitical zone would continue to align with the decision of the leaders of the zone in rejecting the proposed cattle colony by the Federal Government.

Found mainly in tropical forests on the Indian subcontinent, this spectacular mammal usually resides in a treetop colony with hundreds or sometimes thousands of other bats.

Despite serious losses to colonies in the U.S. and Europe, honeybees are on the rise in other parts of the world — although hardly keeping pace with growing demand

But, if another parasite renders more than half of its mature spores infertile (and more still failing to reproduce due to other interferences), that creates a sort of equilibrium with a colony.

Perhaps space tourism and brief joyrides will be the lesser part of the industry; in the longer term, commercial spacecraft may help us discover minerals or other resources with now - unimaginable properties, or to found colonies that will serve, in the vision of Stephen Hawking, as the ultimate insurance policy for our species.

This discovery of these oversized versions of soldier ants, whose job is to defend the nest, led researchers to create their own supersoldier ants in the lab with the help of a hormone, and, by doing so, offer an explanation for how ants, and possibly other social insects, take on specific forms with dedicated jobs within their colonies.

How, they wondered, do colonies interact with each other?

«This might be because bee colonies have fewer feeding sites to choose from in urban areas, so they are interacting with more bees from other colonies.

Many house rules were thought to be flexible: When food is scarce, for instance, a colony with one queen might take on others.

In the simulation, they found that over decades colonies would appear and disappear (much like observations of actual fairy circles) and that they would eventually self - organize into regularly spaced honeycomb patterns, with each colony surrounded by six others.

They showed in previous studies with cell cultures that when adding RK - 33 to malignant lung and other cancerous cells that highly express DDX3, proliferation slowed or halted, and the cells» ability to form colonies was impaired.

Other treatment options with limited effectiveness involve mechanical methods, such as drone - brood trapping or freezing, or natural methods, such as dusting colonies with powdered sugar to increase the bees» grooming behaviors, which results in mite removal.

Also the species composition of bats seems to play a role: Colonies with vampire bats, feeding on other animal's blood, supply more nitrogen to the trees than those without vampire bats.

Laurent Keller at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and Kenneth Ross at the University of Georgia, Athens, were scanning the genes of various populations of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) when they noticed something strange: Queen ants who had their own colonies carried two copies of the dominant variety of a particular gene — they were homozygous for the variety, that is — while those who shared a nest with other queens were heterozygous, carrying only one copy.

«What is lost by an oversimplified view of colony health is that honey bees suffer from myriad parasites, diseases and other stressors that are more commonly associated with the death of the colony,» he said.

It turns out that even asexual fungal cells can be social: As they grow and fuse with one another to form colonies, they reach out toward some neighbors while snubbing others.

He hangs on to queens from hives that survive the stress of winter and mates them with bees from other healthy colonies.

Surprisingly, these conserved gene sets were also associated with several other biological traits, which evolved multiple times in ants, such as number of queens in a colony, whether an ant species is invasive or not, and the degree of worker sterility.

Researchers traced the unusual rat colony to a single room at the vendor's facility, and they restored the original urine composition in a few weeks by cohousing the rats with animals from other rooms.

After injecting colonies of S. pneumoniae into the noses of mice, the scientists infected some of them with an influenza virus and the others were given a harmless solution.

To the researchers» surprise, in all but one of the colonies the queen had been replaced with secondary queens but shared only her genetic makeup; all of the other worker termites, however, had genes from both queen and the king.

Eventually the scout heads out with other foragers to bring back food; they don't get to eat until the rest of the colony is sated.

Workers shook even more when the royal pheromone was blended with other hydrocarbons from the colony's workers that represent the colony's odor.

That may be because females form close associations with their roost mates and may forage near familiar individuals, while males often roost alone or in small bachelor colonies and may be less familiar with others foraging nearby.

When her first batch of eggs is born, some of her daughters commit to a lifetime of helping her expand her colony while the others run away with the males and found new colonies.

In the half purple half white Pocillopora (top left)-- two colonies of Pocillopora appear as one, with one half bleached (white) and the other half (purple) beginning to bleach.

It grows in thick mats and shares its habitat near fissures in the Earth's crust with a few other hardy microbes and colonies of giant tube worms.

Permanent colonies would almost certainly be restricted to the polar regions due to the extreme daytime temperatures elsewhere on the planet, although excursions to the other parts of the planet would be feasible with appropriate measures

«But in an apiary with many other colonies nearby, the cost of parasite virulence goes way down.»

Therefore, to disentangle global, regional, or colony population trajectories associated with climate change from other influences will require long term ecological research.

In other words, a probiotic billed as containing 50 billion CFU (colony - forming units) might leave the factory with 200 billion CFUs, some of which are expected to die off over time.

The research showed that combining fructooligosaccharides, (FOS), with bifidobacterium lactis, increased the growth of the colony considerably, and compared to other probiotics, bifidobacterium lactis was the bacteria that benefited the most from feeding on FOS.

You will then be able to interact fully with other members of the Colony.