Sentence examples for canopy colonies from inspiring English sources

Earwigs were found to reduce the survival of overwintering canopy colonies up to June.

This can be especially important in areas where canopy colonies are highly affected by low winter temperatures (Walker, 1985), but the role that these cold temperatures may have on canopy colonies in Mediterranean areas has not been checked.

Winter temperatures did not kill the canopy colonies, and both canopy and root colonies are the source of reinfestations in Mediterranean areas.

Aims of this study were to know the ecology of WAA in Mediterranean areas, the winter survival of the canopy colonies and the role that natural enemies may play in such areas in order to improve WAA control.

European earwigs Forficula auricularia (Linnaeus) were found to reduce the survival of overwintering canopy colonies up to June, and this can allow their later control by the parasitoid Aphelinus mali (Haldeman) from summer to fall.

We thus conclude that the species C. leonardi, and not other species of ants, is the principal host of O. unilateralis at our site and that ant trails are rarely found at ground level but more abundantly in the canopy where the colonies are located.

Taking into account only the movement of crawlers, we could not find a consistent relationship between canopy and root colonies.

These observations are consistent with the hypothesis mentioned above, that there is not a clear relationship between canopy and root colonies.

We conclude that both canopy and root colonies are the source of reinfestations in Mediterranean areas, as crawlers migrated upward and downward throughout the year and winter temperatures did not kill the aerial colonies.

"There were tears shed and hearts sunken, it's devastating when a colony like our local one goes down like this due to heat, this colony needs more canopy cover and shaded areas to help with our ever rising hot summers because this episode will surely not be the last," the group said on Facebook.

The lack of colony-level organization is further highlighted by the lack of relationship between the number of nests in a colony and either canopy cover or sizes of nests in the network.