The number of cells per colony varies (2 128) depending on the species.
Even then, the yield can vary wildly, from under 20 pounds of honey per colony to more than 120 pounds.
This means that the time per colony has dropped fourfold.
For greater number colonies the time per colony increases due to memory swapping and frequent context switching.
For computers with traditional hard disk drives the time per colony starts to increase for smaller number of colonies.
Pollen uptake varied significantly among sites and seasons, with an overall annual mean total 16.8 kg per colony, containing 7.14 kg protein and 677 g fat.
Gravid transplants also shed more planulae per colony, yielding significantly augmented numbers of total planulae over naturally developed S. pistillata colonies.
Enhanced biomass accumulation was paralleled by morphological adjustments such as increased root length and number of fronds per colony, and by increased photosynthetic efficiency.
The colonies of M. nigrocincta ants are monogyne, i.e. they have only one queen per colony.
Despite the small sample size per colony, we nevertheless documented up to two genotypes per colony (see Table 3).
The number of conidiophores per colony was then determined for at least 36 leaves per genotype.
