Sentence examples for nest brood from inspiring English sources

Attack by parasitoids will occur in the nest brood, as the invader will attempt to insert its own offspring into the host's nest.

It has many functions in the defense of the nest, brood and stored food, and plays an important role in protecting the honeybee larvae by preventing diseases and parasites from entering the hive [32].

The discovery of a 100-million-year-old amber fossil pushes back the date that bees began pollinating flowers by millions of years [2], although species of Apis are much younger than this.Honeybees defend their nest, brood and stored food through many complicated and efficient defensive behaviors [3], but populations have decreased rapidly in many countries in recent years.

Five different types of situations were noted: brooding observations but no information on the reproductive success, hatching observation with chicks in the nest, observations of chicks leaving the nest, brooding observations with evidences of predation, and brooding observations with proven predation.

"Like birds, crocodiles build good nests, brood their eggs, protect their eggs, fuss over their eggs," Dr. Ross said.

As their name suggests, these birds nest and brood in groups.

Management of longleaf pine savannas should focus on applying prescribed fire every 1 2 years to maintain native flora communities while enhancing nest and brood cover.

Our research provided the first evidence that mechanical conifer removal treatments can increase suitable available breeding habitats for female sage-grouse and that individuals who occupied these areas experienced enhanced nest and brood success.

Similar to nest predation, brood parasites like Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) in North America and Common Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) in Europe may preferentially find bulky nests, and thus act as a selective pressure favoring smaller, less conspicuous host nests over time.

Polydomous wood ant colonies form distinct trails of ants travelling between these nests: workers carry food, nesting material, brood, and queens along these trails in both directions (Rosengren and Pamilo 1983).

Using the novel approach of random slope covariates, we demonstrated that sage-grouse selected for nest and brooding sites closer to conifer removal areas and that the probability of individual nest and brood success declined (β = − 0.10 and β = − 0.74, respectively) as sage-grouse females selected sites farther from conifer removal areas.