Sentence examples for over foraging from inspiring English sources

If multiple females are present, these foundresses form a dominance hierarchy with dominant foundresses (with large ovaries) taking over egg-laying and subordinate foundresses (with small ovaries) taking over foraging and provisioning of larvae [ 15].

We've gone over foraging for wild edibles in the park here, and I've digressed on the wonder of finding wild oysters on Mark Bittman's blog, too.

Shipley et al. (1996, p. 242) modeled the influence of locomotion on foraging behaviour in modern herbivores and state that an "animal may choose to exploit many bites at one 'feeding station' before moving on" over foraging continuously because of the considerable cost incurred from acceleration and deceleration.

I agree with Sparclear when it comes to over foraging, especially in the case of sea kale which can be grown well in the garden.

This was explained by the queen having to cope on her own for longer before there were sufficient workers to take over foraging duties.

But I was surprised that some of my guests, high-minded foodies who can fuss over foraging, were repulsed.

Wabbit is careful never to "over-forage" a patch, and to work with the seasons – gathering fruits for jams, cordials and alcohol when they are in abundance.

Another form of active interference competition is kleptoparasitism, where one individual steals food or takes over good foraging spots from another (e.g., Ens and Goss-Custard 1984; Monaghan and Metcalfe 1985; Triplet et al. 1999).

Guests come from all over for foraging tours led by the aptly named Giovanni Cantarelli ("chanterelles") and return bearing baskets of mycological gold.

Additionally, the total number of dives were used to calculate dive rate (dives h−1) averaged over the foraging trip.

However, bears prefer dawn and dusk over midday foraging.