Sentence examples for general colony from inspiring English sources

Workers are involved in nest building, tunnel maintenance, and brood care whereas soldiers defend the colony and possibly communicate general colony fitness.

It is not clear whether these higher need for energetic reserves and muscle contraction represent the general colony tasks that the larvae perform relative to the more specialized tasks typically undertaken by the older workers and soldiers.

Young MAB appear to spend more time on comb building and general colony maintenance, while older MAB may transition to nectar processing and other tasks, which put them nearer the entrance of the nest (Seeley 1995; Trumbo et al. 1997).

The general colony branching pattern of those resembling Thouarella is like that of Tokoprymno, while the polyp form and the shape and arrangement of the sclerites clearly suggest the samples belong to the species Thouarella viridis (apart from the colour of the colony and the absence of ridges on the coenenchymal sclerites).

In general, colonies were regularly spaced at a fine scale.

Unlike the general ant colony optimization that finds solutions in discrete space, the ECACO finds solutions in a continuous space.

Although a handful of Chinese settlers had arrived in Madagascar towards the end of the reign of Queen Ranavalona III, the first major influx of Chinese migrants followed an announcement by General Joseph Gallieni, first governor general of the colony of Madagascar, requesting 3,000 Chinese laborers to construct a northern rail line between Antananarivo and Toamasina.

Our work supports the general idea that colony formation and large colony size provide a selective advantage in the presence of predators and a disadvantage when predators are absent and resource competition is strong.

On September 23 the Dutch West India Company named him director general of the colony on Manhattan.

"I wouldn't say that people here like the idea, but they accept it and hope for the best," said the Rev. Domingos Lam, the vicar general of the colony's Roman Catholic Church.

When France fell into political turmoil after the May 1958 insurrection in Algeria (then still a French colony), General Charles de Gaulle, an outspoken critic of the postwar constitution who had served as the provisional head of government in the mid-1940s, retorned to political life as prime minister.