Sentence examples for domicile building from inspiring English sources

The finding may also represent a step in the evolution of social behavior in thrips, as domicile building is often a group affair.

However, domiciles are very frequently damaged by wind in the field, often with loss of all inhabitants (Gilbert JDJ, unpublished data), but are usually repaired by adult residents, implying that not only domicile building but also domicile maintenance is necessary for larval survival.

The domicile-building Acacia thrips tie or glue phyllodes with silk to create a chamber.

Compared with their gall-inducing relatives, domicile-building thrips are poorly studied.

Opportunistic and domicile-building thrips are polyphyletic groups whose common ancestors appeared between 5 and 10 Mya.

Our findings show corresponding origins of domicile-building and kleptoparasitic thrips genera that are consistent with previous work [ 76].

However, the requirement for parental care in D. aneurae adds to the parallels that have already been pointed out between domicile-building thrips and the primitively eusocial Hymenoptera (reviewed in Bono and Crespi 2008).

Kleptoparasitic thrips species invade and kill gall-inducing or domicile-building thrips on Acacia while opportunistic Acacia thrips species utilise the abandoned domiciles, galls, or similar constructions of other insect orders.

These observations make it difficult to determine whether behavioural specialisation by kleptoparasitic lineages on the domicile-building and gall-inducing thrips evolved as a consequence of either biotic or abiotic pressures.

In the field, adults have never been observed defending against intruders (Gilbert and Simpson 2013), although such behavior has been observed in domicile-building Paracholeothrips (Crespi et al. 2004).

First, for a given domicile size, cofoundresses may spread the cost of domicile construction and maintenance, thus obtaining a valuable protective resource (a domicile) for less individual cost.