On the other hand, more general models could focus on colony activity such as abnormal colony behavior based on some simple rules (e.g., low activity during a sunny day).
Forensic examination of the computer showed "approximately 20 images depicting child erotica, nudist colony activity, and several lascivious display images," police said.
Dyer [70] reported that mellifera colonies show higher rates of colony activity or "worker tempo" than florea or dorsata and have a higher colony metabolic rate.
Placing control and treatment combs within the same colony during larval development equalized possible effects of colony activity and quality of resources fed to brood.
Many annual Polistes, Vespa, Xylocopa and Allodape species show continuous colony activity during the whole season [ 8- 11].
It is reasonable to speculate that differences in colony activity levels are related to molecular processes associated with worker metabolism.
Ten colonies of 64 166 workers (average 100) were used to collect 8 19 observations per colony, totalling 113 (observation numbers vary owing to differing colony activity levels).
For example, our collection contained social insects (ants, bumble bees, and vespines) that can be oversampled when traps are set near nests or other sites of high colony activity.
Although the influence of frequency dependent selection selection (e.g. the threat of usurpation by floater females) will tend to synchronise the temporal pattern of all externally driven activity breaks [ 38], the observed synchronization of colony activity in aggregations of e.g. L. malachurum is readily explained by the shelter a closed nest provides for the developing brood.
After eclosion, adult worker bees perform within-colony activities such as cleaning, food storage, rearing larvae, and attending the queen (Winston 1987).
