So, to achieve a high density treatment, we increased the brood size for the majority of broods in this plot and we kept 20% of broods per plot as opposite treatment controls (reduced brood size for high density plots) and 20% as real controls (average brood size for a year).
The majority (80%) of brood from replicate 3 emerged on day 21 of development (Fig. 6A C).
In Central Europe the majority of the brood is reared in the spring until the beginning of the summer (e.g. Seeley, 1985; Wille, 1985; Winston, 1987; Liebig, 1994; Imdorf et al., 1996).
The majority of their adopted brood was born in captivity zoo orphans or exotic pets abandoned by rich people who finally realized their one-year-old bobcats weren't going to shit in a box.
P. damicornis is hermaphroditic and shows an unusual dual-reproductive mode, with the majority of offspring consisting of brooded asexual larvae, complimented by the cryptic simultaneous broadcast-spawning of sexual gametes [ 55].
If the test colonies were not exposed to cold stress (Texp = 34°C) the majority of the bees in brood nest cells was warmer than the cell wall (Fig. 8A), and there were no differences between the age groups (P>0.05; comparisonsrisons = 0.35 1.75<5.731).
The full data set of experiment 1 included broods where analysis of maternal genotypes suggested that they were produced by females that had already produced one brood earlier in the experiment, or broods where males had sired the majority of eggs sampled from a number of broods produced by different females [see Additional file 1].
The queen spends the majority of her time in the brood nest laying eggs in the vicinity of these nurse bees; thus, the nurse bees have the greatest opportunity for interaction with the queen.
The majority of samples (749) we analyzed included brood nest wax and foundation, pollen and bees from colonies associated with the specific research projects described above.
The results of genetic assignment tests confirmed that monogamous parentage characterized the majority (84.6%, 22/26) of broods, and that most (93.8%, 75/80) nestlings were the offspring of their social parents.
