Sentence examples for colony cycle from inspiring English sources

The colony cycle of Polistes exclamans is longer than that of northern wasp species, shorter than that of tropical wasp species and as such is in "some respects intermediate between" the two.

Abdominal fat in adult female Polistes reared early in the colony cycle is scant and yellow, whereas abdominal fat in females reared late in the colony cycle is abundant and white [29], [30], [31], [32].

First, our model does not predict an obvious wave of infection until 14 wks after spillover first occurs (i.e., when commercial and wild bees first interact), which would be after wild bumble bees have completed their colony cycle in our area and after greenhouses have stopped using commercial colonies for the season.

The colony cycle of this species is as follows.

The colony cycle typically starts in spring with nest founding by inseminated and hibernated females.

First, we present a deterministic model of the colony cycle with constant season length.

First, queenless workers are able to form hierarchy and division of labor as do fertile workers at the competition phase during the natural colony life cycle, which may shed light on some of the issues concerning the effect of worker quantity/density in full-sized colonies.

Solitary behaviour, reproduction and foraging are coupled early in the colony life cycle.

Further research is necessary to understand how social insect colonies are organized across the colony life cycle.

Interestingly, transcripts that were up-regulated early in the colony life cycle corresponded to stress resistance and immune defense.

Although the regulation of worker reproduction has been studied intensively in social insects, very few studies have investigated the regulation of worker reproduction across the colony life cycle.