Sentence examples for host worker from inspiring English sources

Intruding slavemakers are simultaneously attacked by many host workers because a single host worker would be overpowered by a parasite.

In the host worker isolation control experiment, CHC concentration did not decrease after isolation, instead it increased in two colonies (additional file 7: Worker control experiment).

These controls intended to test whether an isolation treatment similarly affects the expression of host worker CHC profiles (given the fact that they are able to biosynthesise the CHCs).

Worker nepotism might explain the common absence of reproduction by host workers in socially parasitic ants.

In these species the parasite larvae are given food and nourishment by the host workers.

Therefore, raiding parties include workers of both ant species, that is, slavemaker and host workers.

The remaining host workers help the V. squamosa queen rear her own worker and sexual offspring.

Isolated silverfish were more frequently antennated by host workers, and they avoided host contact more often than non-isolated silverfish.

They specialize on invading host nests and stealing their brood, killing host workers and occasionally the queens.

Stolen host brood is raised in the slavemaker nest, and emerging host workers serve as slaves [ 14- 16].

Enslaved host workers that participate in raids often harm attack host colonies more than slavemakers because these Temnothorax slaves frequently attack and sting defending host workers (Foitzik and Herbers 2001).