Sentence examples for colony fails from inspiring English sources

Figure 5 is a bifurcation diagram, which shows that for low values of the forager death rate m there are large numbers of bees in the colony, but once m passes a critical value the colony population cannot support itself and the colony fails.

The model proposes a bifurcation point in the death rate parameter such that when death rate is below a critical threshold, colony population reaches an equilibrium point determined by model parameters, but when forager death rate is sustained above the threshold, colony population declines to zero and the colony fails.

"Measured by any of the objectives announced for it," Morgan reckoned, "the colony failed".

Like most such schemes, the colony failed to live up to the trustees' vision.

The plan to establish the 14th colony failed, however, and Kentucky was made a county of Virginia.

Maybe Roanoke's disappearance nags at official American memory not just because the colony failed but also because, for a long time, no one much cared.

In 1526 Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón founded what is believed to have been the first white European settlement in South Carolina, but this Spanish colony failed within a few months.

The Roanoke colony failed and is known as the lost colony, after it was found abandoned on the return of the late-arriving supply ship.

During the early phases of colonization, far more colonies failed than succeeded.

Results showed that exposure to pesticides at levels bees encounter in the field, has subtle impacts on individual bees, and can eventually make colonies fail.

Beekeepers have also reported that a third of honeybee colonies failed to survive the winter following last year's wash-out summer and continuing bad weather into 2013, exacerbated by the late arrival of spring.