When profits from the late 90's stock market boom fired up the market for luxury summer homes, builders even began creating colonies of houses named for Nantucket.
Occasionally household animals go wild, mate and create colonies of feral cats.
After developing their specialized "printing" process, the sky became the limit: the duo turned to a number of Vik Muniz' photographs as inspiration for what they'd grow, and began creating Colonies.
"By sending up ants for nuptial flights, they maximise the chances of breeding and creating colonies elsewhere".
Having originally opposed trade unions, Mason became a paternalistic mill owner, creating a colony for his workers with associated facilities and ensuring that they experienced good conditions.
He also bought 1,200 acres in the forested Santa Cruz mountains near Stanford where, after the suicide of his artist daughter Pamela in 1978, he created a colony for other struggling artists.
By forcing several queens to cohabit (Fig. 1), they create more productive colonies for commercial exploitation.
"The colony puts up with them," Dr. Scantlebury said, "because they offer the chance of spreading the genes and creating future colonies".
Full sisters were used to create the two host colonies for each race.
During the last two weeks of April 2005, I created experimental colonies using workers and larvae from the overwintered colonies.
