Sentence examples for patrolling workers from inspiring English sources
It feeds on the nectar, uses the hollow internodes but has much smaller numbers of patrolling workers, which confer little or no protection against herbivores [27].
The difference in size also permits the nymphs to avoid being attacked by small ants by raising the leg or legs likely to be discovered by patrolling workers, or by moving as these ants are very slow.
During occasional encounters with patrolling workers, Z. annulosus individuals only raised their legs, probably to avoid contact with the ants, while the latter generally ignored their presence or did not detect them and never recruited nestmates to evict them.
As a result, P. gracilis' fitness should be less adversely affected by the loss of host plant tissue than is P. ferrugineus' fitness, and if P. gracilis gains more total fecundity by avoiding investment in patrolling workers than it loses by living in a smaller and more rapidly dying plant, non-patrolling behavior can be maintained (Edwards et al. 2006).
When a wood thrush flew by the Trailhead mound carrying a grasshopper to her own nest and dropped part of the crushed insect to the ground, a patrolling worker found it in less than a minute and triggered a chain action.
If a patrolling worker arrived by chance, the Z. annulosus only lifted the prey with its rostrum, avoiding any contact between the prey and the ant (N = 17 cases out of 50).
A resident of the apartment building who spoke on condition of anonymity said tenant patrol workers were supposed to keep "the bad people out of the building".
"We have about 50 to 100 regulars that we pick up on a daily basis," said Josh Wilson, one of the patrol workers.
The last of these, stinker that it was, appropriately had to be filmed on sets with drains patrolled by workers wielding brooms.
Last July, the group began sending out daily security patrols; its workers also collect several hundred 30-gallon bags of trash a day.
The firm responded to growing criticism of its handling of the water problem by increasing the number of workers patrolling the tanks from the current total of eight to 50.
