Sentence examples for host nests from inspiring English sources

V. destructor mites reproduce on honey bee brood developing within the wax cells of host nests.

Males of some species of cuckoos may accompany the females in searching for potential host nests.

Cowbirds are difficult to study since breeding activities are distributed among many host nests.

Inquilinous species feed on the inner carton material of the host nests.

Moving about within her territory, the female learns of potential host nests largely by watching their construction.

Cooperatively nesting birds are vulnerable to social parasites that lay their eggs in host nests but provide no parental care1,2,3,4.

Young cowbirds, usually one to the host nest, customarily either displace competing nestlings or appropriate their food.

The cuckoo places only one egg in each host nest and so must find a new nest for each of her 15 to 20 eggs.

Females may lay one egg per day for several weeks—up to 40 in a single season often after removing one from the host nest.

Cowbirds tend to pluck a single egg from the host nest, replacing it with their own.

Assuming cuckoos do successfully sneak their eggs into a host nest, how do hosts distinguish their own from the usurpers?